Charlie Maclean-Bristol discusses questions organizations should consider when responding to a cyber-attack, including how the attacker got into the system and their potential motives.
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Few problems are crises. But all crises are serious management problems.
Australia’s decision to ban all non-prescription vapes highlights how lobbyists and activists sometimes misuse data in an attempt to influence major public issues.
Should legal advice take precedence in a crisis?
by Tony Jaques, Director of Issue Outcomes Pty Ltd, for people who work in issue and crisis management
Lawyers are involved in just about every serious organizational crisis. Yet how much specific training do they receive about their role in a crisis as part of…
If your approach is, “management by bungling,” expect irreparable, permanent damage to your reputation, at least while you’re still in charge
How many more times will some struggling organization announce that a cyber-breach or data leak was caused by failure at a 3rd-party contractor?
When an advertisement goes terribly wrong who’s to blame? That surely must have been the question at Google after the launch of their new AI tool Bard.
When a 50-car freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and caught fire near the small town of East Palestine in rural Ohio in February, it was always going to be a corporate crisis and a state-wide disaster.
Throughout the business world, security breaches have become a constant reminder of the critical need to assess and take action on cybersecurity risks and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. As we have seen from the damages incurred from the war in Ukraine, it has occurred to many businesses and municipalities around the world that they could be…
Issue management is a proven, effective tool for driving toward openly stated objectives, but legitimate tools can sometimes be used for illegitimate purposes.