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Leading Through Crisis: A Guide for Security Leaders

Security leaders across various sectors and roles are now responsible for supporting organizational resilience, taking on broader mandates and placing greater emphasis on crisis management. To ensure their organization can thrive amid disruption and uncertainty, they must move from managing to leading crises.

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With this ebook, you’ll learn:

How to empower your team to make effective, well-informed decisions by painting a vivid picture of immediate and future scenarios and communicating them widely

What to pay attention to—inside and outside of your organization—so you can better prepare for the unexpected and stay abreast of the evolving risk ecosystem

Why stress testing your response during a crisis is as critical to the safety of your organization as developing risk and security protocols

CSOs must do three things to ensure their organization can thrive amid uncertainty: delegate and communicate effectively, conduct scenario planning exercises that are as realistic as possible, and understand the true size and scope of their organization’s risk profile.” 

The Call for Chief Security Officers to Become Crisis Leaders
L'appel aux chefs de la sécurité à devenir des leaders de crise

Crises often occur because the organization is at odds with its environment. Many security leaders tend to focus inward during these times, but research has shown that the most effective crisis leaders will place an equal emphasis on the internal and external environments.”

The Call for Chief Security Officers to Become Crisis Leaders
L'appel aux chefs de la sécurité à devenir des leaders de crise