Contingency & Emergency Communication Plans
When a crisis hits, communication can be the difference between control and chaos. We develop robust communication plans that ensure coordinated responses, regulatory compliance (NIS2) and protection of your organization’s reputation.
Contingency Communication Plan — Defining protocols, channels and owners to keep communication running during incidents
Emergency Communication Plan — Procedures for fast, effective communication with stakeholders, authorities and the public in a crisis
Alert-Level Definition — Classification and automatic escalation of incidents with associated communication matrices
Communication Matrix — Full mapping of internal and external stakeholders with channels, cadence and pre-approved messages
Communication Templates — Pre-formatted messages for different scenarios (ransomware, data breach, service outage, natural disaster)
Training & Simulations — Periodic tabletop exercises and drills to validate the plans and prepare the teams
NIS2 Integration — Aligning the communication plans with the NIS2 notification requirements (72h / 24h)
Digital Crisis Management — Protocols for social-media and press communication during security incidents
Continuous Review & Update — Periodic maintenance of the plans based on lessons learned and organizational change
NIS2 & Reputation
NIS2 requires communication plans
The NIS2 directive requires essential and important entities to have incident-response plans that include structured communication with the competent authorities within defined deadlines (24 hours for the early warning, 72 hours for the incident report). Without clear communication plans, the risk of non-compliance is high.
Our team ensures your contingency and emergency plans are fully aligned with NIS2 requirements, ISO 22301 (Business Continuity) and international crisis-management best practices.
What crisis communication plans are
A contingency and emergency communication plan defines, in advance, who communicates, what, through which channel and within what timeframe when an incident occurs. It is the instrument that turns the chaos of a crisis into a coordinated response, keeping the right people informed — internal teams, customers, authorities and, when needed, the public and the media.
Without this planning, organizations tend to improvise under pressure — delaying mandatory notifications, issuing contradictory messages and amplifying the reputational damage of an incident that would otherwise be manageable.
Our approach
We start by understanding your organization, its critical services and the relevant stakeholders. From there, we design the communication matrix, the alert levels and the escalation procedures, and we prepare pre-approved messages for the most likely scenarios, such as ransomware, data breaches or service outages.
Plans are only worth having if they work under pressure, so we validate them with tabletop exercises and periodic simulations, and we review them regularly in light of lessons learned and organizational change.
What's included
The deliverables include documented contingency and emergency plans, the stakeholder and channel matrix, message templates, escalation procedures by alert level and a training plan for the teams. Everything is aligned with the NIS2 directive and the ISO 22301 business-continuity standard.
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Our team designs and implements contingency and emergency plans tailored to your organization, meeting NIS2 requirements.