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Rise in Ransomware Attacks Demands Extra Crisis Vigilance

PRSay

Preparing for these increasingly sophisticated threats and containing the damage when attacks occur requires a level of experience and expertise beyond that of a company’s day-to-day crisis team. Build a dedicated cyber-crisis team. Here are six things to think about: 1. Make key decisions ahead of time. Enlist employees.

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The Importance of Adaptive Response In The First Moments of Crisis Management

Melissa Agnes

Lou and I go into even more detail on this subject in episode #024 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. A crisis is a change. For example, some threats might include: financial earnings, reputation, human life, or physical assets. In the uncertain environment of crisis, responders must understand these three attributes of risk.

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Reputation Risk Insurance: Exercise Your Protection

Reputation Us

It only takes one crisis to permanently harm your company’s image. A reputational crisis can happen to any business of any size. It’s happened enough that the insurance industry now offers Reputation Risk Insurance to protect companies against financial loss. Such policies are not without a high price. Bodily injury.

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Managing an agency through the COVID-19 crisis - PRCA taskforce

Stephen Waddington

The PRCA has launched an international taskforce of 50+ volunteers to help support members managing their businesses during the crisis. The dot com crash, 911 and the financial crash in 2008 all left scars in my career. Plan and act now We’re starting to understand the nature and shape of the COVID-19 crisis.

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When A Privacy Breach Is A PR Crisis: How To Avoid It

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For most of us, it would be awkward at the very least, but for a public figure or corporation, disclosure of private communications amounts to a full-blown public relations crisis. The unauthorized disclosure of private information is particularly tricky in crisis management terms. Have a digital media policy. It still holds.

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11 Steps For Crisis Management

Prohibition

Any company, big or small, can experience a crisis. According to research, about 75 percent of companies will experience a crisis at some point due to the increasing complexity of modern business and the growth of social media in our fast-paced world. This is where crisis management comes in. What is Crisis Management?

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What people think vs. What people think about

Onclusive

Fools… are apt to think that events exogenously give us the news by jumping out at us, but, in fact, the news media are choosing the news because their financial success depends on their stories’ viral impact,” wrote Nobel prize-winning economist, Robert Shiller in his book called Narrative Economics.