Following a comprehensive BCM and IT-BCM project in 2013, including mapping of infrastructure, resources and processes, development and testing of plans, etc, a medium sized Swedish bank purchased Exonaut® to streamline, automate and follow-up its readiness capability efforts.

A Nordic insurance company addressed internal audit remarks with support from 4C Strategies. With our approach to BCM – including methodology and visualisation tools for assessing business impacts and risks – the client was able to align requirements from business operations with continuity capabilities of supporting IT services, create awareness about dependencies and risks to IT continuity, and develop actionable and practical IT recovery plans.

Since 2013, 4C Strategies has been the preferred provider of crisis management services for one of the largest commercial banks in Sweden. Through a tight and long cooperation, the Bank has gradually enhanced its crisis response capability by developing an effective crisis management plan, educating its crisis management organisation as well as testing its crisis management structures, processes and routines.

4C Strategies have supported a number of Military Experimentation events from the design through the field trial delivery to the exploitation of the resulting data.

NATO’s Readiness Action Plan requires a transparent, cohesive and consistent training and exercise planning and management system which provides the ability to connect forces, including existing NATO nations and Partners.

As framework provider of exercises to the Norwegian Transmission system operator (TSO), 4C Strategies supported the planning and delivery of Black Screen 2017 – a large-scale cyber exercise in the Nordic electricity sector. The exercise, including 84 representatives of 16 agencies from all five Nordic countries, took place in Oslo, Norway. Over two days, a sinister cyber-attack against SCADA systems in all five Nordic countries was played out, in a table top setting, mixed with live elements such as press conferences. This was an excellent opportunity for representatives of Transmission System Operators, regulating authorities and CERTs in all five Nordic countries to come together and develop their readiness toward major cyber-attacks.

The joint crisis communications team at two large NPP’s in southern Sweden received Incident & Crisis Management training in their different locations. Tools, roles and processes where presented and exercised. Effects on the organisation as well as the individuals affected were introduced and discussed at length. The full-day event concluded with an evaluation to identify improvements in all areas within their current incident and crisis management.

In early 2015, 4C Strategies was hired by one of the four largest fuel supply companies in Sweden to analyse the liquid fuels depot infrastructure in the Greater Stockholm area and how these depots could supply the region. The resilience of five different depot scenarios was analysed and the following aspects where analysed and assessed for each scenario: cost & environment, risks, crisis and war preparedness and feasibility to implement each depot structure in a given time perspective.

4C Strategies support a Military customer designing, managing and evaluating objective based training of increasing complexity through time and the progression of units towards readiness.

Hospitals are complex buildings with vital societal functions. They are dependent on advanced equipment and systems for control, monitoring, information and communication. Furthermore, hospitals handle hazardous substances and are in need of protection from external threats. Responsible authorities rely on 4C Strategies to develop guidelines for the next generation resilient hospitals.

The airport’s main challenges revolved around increasing passenger volume, new safety regulations, and difficulties in gathering the growing number of stakeholders to efficiently respond to a crisis. There was an identified need to easily update incident data in accordance with the latest requirements of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), integrated with a mobile crisis management tool.

A large construction company freed up approximately 10-20% of tied down economic capital due to improved quality of risk data and portfolio management of financial reserves.

A large infrastructure development agency was able to cut their administrative time spent on Risk Management activities by 20% using Exonaut®.

A large manufacturer managed to make substantial savings on their insurance premium through improvements to their Risk Management processes.