Three Essential Tabletop Exercise Tips for anyone interested in preparing organizations to overcome difficult scenarios. Tabletop exercises mobilize leaders to evaluate and elevate their organizations’ readiness to respond to a range of risks, threats and hazards. Exercise planning should therefore be focused on creating environments conducive to learning. The predominant goal of any tabletop exercise... Continue Reading →
What invokes organizational survivability? At BeST, we carry out a great number of crisis simulations across a wide range of industries. Regardless of the nature of the crisis or the industry of the organization, we often see organizations allocate all of their resources to the immediate management of a crisis, without accounting for the requirements... Continue Reading →
Co Authored by Chelsea Zfaz and Dr. Moty Cristal Early morning on March 22, technical issues began interfering with the normal functioning of the City of Atlanta’s computer systems. It quickly came to light that a number of these systems had fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The entry point for the attack was a... Continue Reading →
What happens when a city’s critical infrastructure is targeted by cyber criminals? Are there mechanisms in place to ensure operational continuity of the vast network of municipal services? Could traffic be disrupted? Sensitive citizen information leaked? We are thrilled to be presenting one of our latest Crisis Management Simulations at the MuniExpo in Tel Aviv... Continue Reading →
Crisis is a matter of “when,” not “if.” And the larger and more global the company, the greater the exposure to risk. 