Everbridge Announces Results of 2024 Best in Resilience™ Study, Showcasing Best Practices of Top-Performing Resilient Organizations

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Everbridge Announces Results of 2024 Best in Resilience™ Study, Showcasing Best Practices of Top-Performing Resilient Organizations

2024-07-08 21:15 Last Updated At：21:21

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 8, 2024--

Everbridge, Inc., the global leader in critical event management (CEM) and national public warning software solutions, today announced the results of the company’s 2024 Best in Resilience™ Study. The study showcases the essential capabilities of top-performing organizations that enable them to remain resilient as they navigate unforeseen challenges and emerge stronger in the face of adversity.

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“Understanding risks to our employees and operations allows us to plan accordingly and respond more efficiently,” explained Chris Green, Incident Response Manager at American Family Mutual Insurance, an Everbridge Best in Resilience certified company. “When incidents happen, we can quickly assess risks and communicate with employees to account for their safety, and coordinate with our Incident Management Team.”

The Everbridge 2024 Best in Resilience Study reviewed thousands of data points from the previous year, from how organizations detect and assess real-time risks to their employees, assets, and locations; to how well they communicate with their people in the face of those threats; and finally, how well organizations assess their competencies and identify their strengths and opportunities for improvement.

Best in Resilience Study – 2024 Benchmarks for Organizational Resilience

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“The findings of the 2024 Best in Resilience Study underscore the critical importance of resilience in today’s rapidly evolving landscape,” said Tracy Reinhold, Chief Security Officer at Everbridge. “The study illuminates the critical role proactive risk detection, effective communication, and continuous improvement play in safeguarding businesses and ensuring their sustained success. By leveraging insights from top-performing organizations, businesses can strengthen their preparedness and response capabilities, ultimately enhancing their ability to navigate and thrive in the face of risk.”

Organizations monitor a tremendous number of risk events to protect their employees and maintain business continuity, and they need an efficient process to notify staff and account for their safety.

Everbridge reviewed the communication activity of Best in Resilience certified organizations—which includes several Fortune 500 companies across numerous sectors. The study found that these organizations assessed nearly 5,500 severe or extreme risk events that are in proximity of their people and operations, and 15% of these risk event alerts were communicated to their employees by sending a multi-modal notification—often sent via email, SMS text message, mobile app, desktop alert, and phone call.

Everbridge runs the industry’s foremost Best in Resilience Certification Program for assessing an organization’s enterprise resilience. Developed from 20 years of professional services engagements across tens of thousands of projects, Everbridge’s proprietary CEM Standards Framework™ offers organizations an end-to-end methodology for evaluating and benchmarking enterprise resilience preparedness. Categories for certification include keeping people safe, maintaining business continuity and operational uptime, optimizing supply chain and supply routes, advancing the interconnectivity, efficiency, and safety of smart buildings, and safeguarding an organization’s brand and reputation through resilient and responsive IT systems.

To start your journey to Best in Resilience, visit bestinresilience.com or email us at resilience@everbridge.com.

To read the full results, go to 2024 Best in Resilience™ Study.

About Everbridge

Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™. For more information, visit https://www.everbridge.com/, read the company blog, and follow on LinkedIn. Everbridge… Empowering Resilience.

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A strike on a mosque kills 19 as Israel bombards northern Gaza and southern Beirut

2024-10-06 19:08 Last Updated At：19:10

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a mosque in the Gaza Strip early Sunday killed at least 19 people, Palestinian officials said, as Israel intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Beirut in a widening war with Iran-allied militant groups across the region.

Displaced people were sheltering at the mosque that was struck near the main hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah. A further four people were killed in a strike on a school sheltering displaced people near the town.

The Israeli military said both strikes targeted militants, without providing evidence.

An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital morgue. Hospital records showed that the dead from the strike on the mosque were all men.

Israel is still battling Hamas in Gaza a year after the group's attack on Israel, and has opened a new front in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which has been trading fire with Israel along the border since the war in Gaza began. Israel has also vowed to strike Iran itself after Tehran launched a ballistic missile attack on Israel last week.

The widening conflict risks drawing in the United States, which has provided crucial military and diplomatic support to Israel, as well as U.S.-allied Arab countries that host American forces. Iran-allied militant groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen have already joined in with long-distance strikes on Israel.

The Israeli military, meanwhile, announced a new air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, home to a densely populated refugee camp dating back to the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation. It circulated photos and video footage showing a column of tanks heading toward the area.

Israeli forces encircled Jabaliya as warplanes struck militant sites inside, the military said. Over the course of the war, Israel has carried out several large operations there, only to see militants regroup.

Israel reiterated its call, from the opening weeks of the war, for the complete evacuation of northern Gaza. Up to 300,000 people are estimated to have remained in the heavily destroyed north after earlier Israeli warnings that sent around a million fleeing to the south.

“We are in a new phase of the war,” the military said in leaflets dropped over the area. “These areas are considered dangerous combat zones.”

Palestinian residents reported heavy Israeli strikes across northern Gaza. The Civil Defense — first responders who operate under the Hamas-run government — said several homes and buildings had been hit and they were not able to reach them because of the bombardment.

Residents posted about the airstrikes and mourned their relatives on social media. Imad Alarabid said in a Facebook post that an airstrike on his home in Jabaliya killed a dozen family members, including his parents. Saeed Abu Elaish, a Health Ministry medic, said he was wounded and bleeding.

“Pray for us,” he wrote on Facebook.

Hassan Hamd, a freelance TV journalist whose footage had aired on Al Jazeera and othr networks, was killed in artillery shelling on his home in Jabaliya. Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter in northern Gaza, confirmed his death.

The military says it has expanded the so-called humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, urging people to head there. Hundreds of thousands of people have already sought refuge in sprawling tent camps there with little in the way of food, water or toilets. Israel has carried out strikes in the humanitarian zone against what it says are militants hiding among civilians.

Nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. It does not say how many were fighters, but says a little more than half were women and children.

Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in the Oct. 7 attack and took another 250 hostage. They are still holding around 100 captives, a third of whom are believed to be dead.

In Beirut, airstrikes lit up the skyline and loud explosions echoed across the southern suburbs, known as the Dahiyeh, throughout the night, as Israel struck what it said were Hezbollah militant sites.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the area was hit by more than 30 strikes overnight, the heaviest bombardment since Sept. 23 when Israel escalated its air campaign.

The targets included a gas station on the main highway leading to the Beirut airport and a warehouse for medical supplies, the agency said. Some of the overnight strikes set off a long series of explosions, suggesting that ammunition stores may have been hit.

Israel’s military confirmed it was striking targets near Beirut and said about 30 projectiles had crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory, with some intercepted.

Hezbollah said it successfully targeted a group of Israeli soldiers in northern Israel “with a large rocket salvo, hitting them accurately.” It was not possible to confirm the claim.

At least 1,400 Lebanese, including civilians, medics and Hezbollah fighters, have been killed and 1.2 million driven from their homes in less than two weeks. Israel says it aims to drive the militant group away from its border so that tens of thousands of Israeli citizens can return to their homes.

Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the strongest armed force in Lebanon, began firing rockets into Israel almost immediately after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, calling it a show of support for the Palestinians. Hezbollah and Israel’s military have traded fire almost daily.

Last week, Israel launched what it said was a limited ground operation into southern Lebanon after a series of attacks killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and most of his top commanders. The fighting is the worst since Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in 2006. Nine Israeli soldiers have been killed in ground clashes that Israel says have killed 440 Hezbollah fighters.

It is not possible to verify battlefield reports from either side.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday reiterated his call for a partial arms embargo on Israel — a demand that prompted an angry response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In a written statement, Macron’s office said he favors a halt to arms exports for use in Gaza because a cease-fire is needed “to stop the mounting violence, free the hostages, protect civilians and clear the way to the political solutions needed for the security of Israel and the whole Middle East.”

Macron's earlier similar remarks led Netanyahu to release a video statement in which he called out the French president by name and referred to such calls as a “disgrace.”

Macron's office insisted that “France is Israel’s unfailing friend” and called Netanyahu's remarks “excessive."

Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.

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