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5 Real-life business continuity planning cases you need to know

Online Computers

Sadly, city administrators knew about their computer systems’ vulnerabilities but had failed to take action in time. Just two months prior to the attack, an audit found almost 2,000 vulnerabilities in the City of Atlanta’s IT system, the majority of which stemmed from obsolete software and an IT culture of ad hoc processes.

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Why Crisis Management Preparedness Matters

everbridge

And, according to management consultancy McKinsey , between 2010 and 2017, the name of a Forbes-recognized top 100 company appeared in headlines together with the word “crisis” 80 percent more often than in the previous decade — and those are just the organizations that made the news.