5 Tips to Protect Your Reputation When a Crisis Hits

These days crises like breaches, ransomware attacks and natural disasters have become all too common and businesses have to contend with keeping core operations running and addressing any reputation fallout that comes with the crisis. During a crisis, … Continue reading 5 Tips to Protect Your Reputation When a Crisis Hits

Five Takeaways from “Confidential Conversations: Are They Actually Possible?”

Last week, our CEO Galina Datskovsky and global security expert Paul Viollis hosted a panel titled “Confidential Conversations: Are They Actually Possible in Our Technological Age?”. We were lucky to be joined by a diverse group of journal… Continue reading Five Takeaways from “Confidential Conversations: Are They Actually Possible?”

How Senior Living Can Use Smartphones to Streamline Their Communications

Providing patients in senior living with quality care is a team effort—and that team is diverse. It can include multiple doctors, nurses, other caretakers and, of course, the patient’s family. While keeping everyone on the same page can fee… Continue reading How Senior Living Can Use Smartphones to Streamline Their Communications

The Hacker Certificate: How Fake Sites are Taking Over Financial Services

We assume that if a website has a security certificate—indicated by an address that begins with “https” and (typically) that little padlock icon next to it—then the website is safe. It isn’t potentially malicious or trying… Continue reading The Hacker Certificate: How Fake Sites are Taking Over Financial Services

Lessons From Harris County: Petrochemical and Incident Response

Two weeks ago, the ExxonMobil complex in Baytown, Texas caught fire after a petrochemical unit exploded. This was the latest in a series of incidents at petrochemical units in the area: in March and April a series of fires occurred at the same ExxonMob… Continue reading Lessons From Harris County: Petrochemical and Incident Response

What Capital One Got Wrong (and Right) After the Breach

With over 106 million customers and applicants’ personal data exposed, the Capital One breach is one of the biggest breaches of a financial institution in US history. A former employee of Amazon’s cloud-computing unit was able to exploit a… Continue reading What Capital One Got Wrong (and Right) After the Breach

Meeting NRC Regulations and the Nuclear Event

The US nuclear industry’s safety record is stellar, in part thanks to NRC regulations that arose from Three Mile Island. But complying with NRC regulations is costly: annual ongoing regulatory costs can range from $7.4 million to $15.5 million pe… Continue reading Meeting NRC Regulations and the Nuclear Event

Business Continuity, Communication and Natural Disasters – What You Should Know

With severe weather becoming the norm across the world, businesses in the United States are faced with the challenge of ensuring that your business can continue to operate if a disaster strikes. In 2018 alone, 11 weather and climate-related disasters … Continue reading Business Continuity, Communication and Natural Disasters – What You Should Know

What the Baltimore Ransomware Attack Means for Incident Response Communications

On Tuesday, May 7, Baltimore city employees came into work to find that their computer screens were locked. “We’ve been watching you for days,” the message on their screens read, “We won’t talk more, all we know… Continue reading What the Baltimore Ransomware Attack Means for Incident Response Communications