Whether you’re considering malicious data breaches or unintentional data exposures – 2019 has been rife with cybersecurity crises. Increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats continue to permeate businesses, healthcare providers and local governments around the world while rising geopolitical tensions further open opportunities for cyberwarfare. Emerging in the wake of June’s particularly hostile developments between the US... 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 →
What would you do if you were an elected official in the midst of a cyber-attack? -*When Cyber Criminals Target Our Cities*
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 →
Observations on Disaster Preparedness
by Chelsea Zfaz In 2015, I was recruited to manage a team of humanitarian professionals sent to Myanmar to support the response to massive flooding that inundated a majority of the country. Equipped with an incredible team of water engineers, psychologists and social workers, we set out to the farthest reaches of the country to... Continue Reading →
Crisis is a matter of “when,” not “if.” And the larger and more global the company, the greater the exposure to risk. 