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For industrial companies, business continuity planning is anything but straightforward. While IT is a critical aspect of business resilience, it’s often just the beginning of a complex continuity process.

That’s because most industrial sites rely

No matter what industry you work in, you have one resource that is more valuable than all the others – your people. To keep people safe, there are certain best practices that security professionals can

When it comes to emergency preparedness, everyone is reconsidering the rules. From the private sector to the public sector, leadership teams are recognizing the need to prepare for increasingly frequent natural and manmade disasters.

How industry leaders are leveraging innovation in technology to safeguard their infrastructure and personnel.

The oil and gas industry today faces an increasingly challenging landscape. Professionals in this field are seeing emerging technologies, new regulations,

A Real-World Drill with AtHoc Connect

BlackBerry AtHoc's customers know how well our solutions work within their organizations.  But, what is it like to be an external first responder, receiving an emergency notification via the

Iztapalapa, Mexico Landslide Case Study

Communities at high risk for natural disasters are constantly looking for ways to ensure they are prepared if and when disaster strikes. In the case of Iztapalapa Mexico danger from

The digital manhunt for the suspect in the mid-September 2016 Chelsea district bombings in New York illustrates both the promise and challenges of advanced crisis communication and emergency alerting.

New York City, State, and Federal

At a recent city council meeting in the eastern USA, city executives were quizzed as to why the emergency alerting system was not activated when law enforcement was searching for two dangerous fugitives being sought

We have all had it happen. Unexpectedly, the cell phone comes to life, issuing a tone unlike anything it normally makes. It is an Amber Alert, indicating a suspected child kidnapping, or it is a

I recently took my daughter on a campus tour at UCLA, as it is one of the colleges she is considering attending next year. This is a rite of passage for most parents – attempting