Tech firm YUDU has just launched Sentinel Check-in, a solution designed specifically for pubs which satisfies Whitehall’s new track and trace demands.
Counter Terror Business talks to Chris Tsikolis, Head of Security & Business Resilience at the Victoria & Victoria Westminster Business Improvement Districts, about collaboration and business continuity. Victoria and Victoria Westminster BIDs use their installation of Sentinel, branded as Victoria Emergency Notification System (VENS) to communicate effectively across the Victoria area in case of crime, disruption or other major incidents.
The ISO defines best practices for managing whole company security procedures and risk reduction on an ongoing basis. To be awarded this ISO, especially as an SME, is a great achievement and a testament to our commitment to the security of our clients’ data.
YUDU Sentinel is our flagship crisis management solution, designed to help organisations manage incidents such as a data breach. It is therefore with great pride that we have been awarded an accreditation that shows we are following the most highly recommended measures to avoid such an incident ourselves and that we can lead by example.
YUDU Sentinel and KRTS International won the CIR Business Continuity Award for Strategy Through Partnership 2019.
KRTS International’s Power to Respond mental health first aid course is available through our crisis management platform Sentinel. The course is designed to help guide employees and their support networks through the symptoms of trauma following a serious incident at work such as mass shootings or natural disasters.
People should be the central focus of any crisis response, and we are honoured to be awarded alongside partners who do so much to help people recover their mental health after a traumatic incident.
Find out more about how you can give your employees access to Power to Respond through Sentinel
Sentinel Hotline is a new and innovative platform aiming to give organisations an affordable way to provide trusted, reliable information to the people who need it most. Organisations in the US and UK can now set up a crisis hotline in less than five minutes, giving them the ability to keep over a million people updated at once during an incident.
Using Sentinel Hotline will be a way to counter the “fake news” that surrounds incidents on social media, such as the Metro Bank hoax that caused its shares to drop earlier this month. It could also prevent communication voids like that of the two-hour delay in emergency services responding to the Manchester Arena bombing.
YUDU Ltd has developed the Alaris app, which provides advice to places of worship, such as churches and mosques, on how to be better prepared in likelihood of an attack.
The free app provides a security plan, gives advice on cctv, full and partial evacuation, as well as information on lock downs, mail handling, reporting suspicious behaviour as well as personal protection.
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May 2018
App development company YUDU and their crisis communications app Sentinel have been shortlisted for the Specialist Technology Company of the Year, Most Innovative Product of the Year and Cloud Based Services. YUDU and Sentinel are among a wide range of finalists, including Clearview, Omniwatch and OnSolve.
Continuity Insurance and Risk Magazine run the Business Continuity Awards annually, recognising excellence in business continuity, security, resilience and risk. This year’s event will be the 20th anniversary of the awards.
The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony being held on June 7th at the London Marriott Hotel.
Mar 2018
YUDU will be exhibiting at LegalEx on March 21st and 22nd, with CEO Richard Stephenson giving a presentation on “How legal firms can use communication apps in a crisis.” LegalEx is one of the fastest growing events in the law industry, celebrating innovation and progression among legal firms.
In addition to exhibiting and presenting, YUDU have been shortlisted for the LegalEx Innovation Award. The Innovation Award is the award for the most innovative new product or service to hit the market and change the way the industry works.
Feb 2018
YUDU have entered into a new working relationship with Corporate Risk Associates. Sentinel will now be one of the cutting edge tools in CRA’s arsenal when advising their broad client base on how to minimise the impact of a crisis should it happen.
CRA is the UK and Europe’s largest integrated Human Factors, Safety and Risk Consultancy, supplying high quality services to safety-critical industries. Their clients operate in both the private and public sectors and play a vital role in the UK and international economies and in people’s everyday lives.
Sentinel is an incident management solution developed to help organisations communicate in a crisis. As a solution that works for a wide range of industries in both the public and private sector, Sentinel is well placed to help organisations from a variety of backgrounds to prepare for and manage an incident safely.
Offering a wide range of services including nuclear PSA, advanced risk analytics for data centres and rail safety, CRA now sees an opportunity to extend their range of services into risk mitigation using Sentinel to effectively deal with the tactical response to a major incident.
30th August, London
Communication software firm YUDU today announced that their flagship crisis communication platform, YUDU Sentinel, has been shortlisted for the award for Excellence in Technology category by the British Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).
These annual awards, collectively called the UK IT Industry Awards, are some of the most important in the UK software industry and help to identify the year’s most exciting innovations in technology.
Sentinel is among some ten other finalists, including AT&T, Vodafone and other blue-chip entrants in the “Business IT Innovation of the Year” sub-category, which recognizes excellence in business-related technology.
Speaking on the announcement of the finalists, YUDU CEO Richard Stephenson commented: "Becoming a finalist is great recognition for the enormous hard work and innovation applied by our development team to create a world-leading solution. Sentinel was modelled on experiences from real crisis events and is now deployed keeping staff safer and informed and businesses significantly more resilient”.
Final judging will begin on the 22nd of September, and the winner will be announced after this date.
18th August, London
YUDU and the London Digital Security Centre (the Centre) are pleased to announce that following a multi-stage selection process Sentinel has been chosen as a Product Partner to provide a primary response tool for business continuity and instant messaging in a crisis.
The Centre’s product partnership program requires firms to undertake a comprehensive selection process, involving testing, interview and shortlisting. The aim is to create a list of practical products and services that are designed to help businesses and organisations across the Capital become more resilient. YUDU believes Sentinel can help all organisations get back up and running after a cyber-attack, fire, power outage or terrorist attack by providing an independent communications channels for staff. Organisations can become more resilient with instant access on mobiles to critical documents and the ability to check people are safe and informed throughout a crisis using in-app, SMS, email and voice messaging.
John Unsworth, CEO of the London Digital Security Centre stated, “We created the MarketPlace to help business choose the best tools to protect themselves by carefully selecting products and services from leading suppliers of digital security. The support of the Mayor of London, the Metropolitan Police and the City of Police is vitally important and I am confident we can make our Capital a safe place for businesses to innovate and grow online.”
The Centre is a non-profit organisation with a mandate to help protect businesses, primarily micro to medium-sized businesses, to operate in a secure digital environment.
