Critical event management for technology companies
Technology organizations trust our best-in-class critical events communication tools to enable rapid and effective responses during a crisis. Our solutions are designed to ensure operational continuity, safeguard vital infrastructure, and protect employees, even in the face of complex challenges. By prioritizing resilience and security, we help your organization maintain trust and deliver uninterrupted services when reliability matters most.
Keep your people safe and your organization running
The technology sector operates in a fast-paced environment where downtime and disruptions can have costly consequences. From cyber threats and data breaches to natural disasters and infrastructure failures, technology companies must protect their operations, workforce, and reputation.
Everbridge helps organizations in the technology sector build resilience with our industry-leading High Velocity Critical Event Management™ platform, Everbridge 360™. Powered by Purpose-built AI, it enables organizations to respond swiftly and effectively to critical events, safeguard employees, secure assets, and minimize operational disruptions.
Built for technology and telecom teams to protect people, infrastructure, operations, and service delivery. Everbridge identifies risks earlier, automates alerts, and coordinates responses. The result is faster action, reduced downtime, protected employees and assets, and stronger continuity when reliability matters most.
Know earlier, respond faster, and improve continuously in how you deal with threats
Stay ahead of physical and digital threats like weather events, active assailants, or IT disruptions with our High Velocity Critical Event Management™ platform, Everbridge 360™.
1. Know earlier
With advanced business continuity planning and leading risk intelligence, you’ll get real-time insights to detect threats wherever they arise, helping you quickly identify risks to your people and operations.
2. Respond faster
When critical events happen, speed matters. Our Alert Management feature enables seamless, “one-click” responses, from emergency communications to clear instructions, keeping your employees safe and your business protected.
3. Improve continuously
Adapt and improve with our detailed after-action reports, response analytics, and interactive dashboards. Turn data into insights to strengthen your organization’s resilience for the future.
How your technology organization can benefit from using Everbridge
Strengthen resilience with unified solutions
Enhance your organization’s ability to adapt and recover with streamlined threat management that keeps operations running smoothly.
Mitigate risks efficiently
Respond swiftly to cyber threats and technical outages while simplifying vendor management for a more coordinated and effective approach.
Safeguard people and assets
Ensure the safety of employees, contractors, and infrastructure with instant, reliable communication during critical events.
Achieve continuous improvement
Use data-driven insights to enhance preparedness and make smarter, more informed decisions over time.
Enhancing global operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment with Everbridge xMatters
One tool central to Sony’s operational strategy is Everbridge xMatters.
Previously, Sony Interactive Entertainment was using different incident management tools, including PagerDuty, Splunk Oncall, and manual calling that they felt lacked the advanced features and flexibility.
They switched to Everbridge xMatters because it offered better customization options, seamless integration with their existing systems, and improved support for their evolving requirements.
How does Everbridge 360™ work?
Everbridge 360™ helps you navigate crises and mitigate risks confidently. It provides real-time threat detection, automated emergency alerts, and unified communication systems to help your technology organization withstand challenges, minimize downtime, and thrive amidst current and emerging threats.
Everbridge 360™ ensures rapid, informed decision-making, protects employees, and maintains operations during critical events. Whether managing cyberattacks, severe weather, or supply chain disruptions, Everbridge 360™ ensures seamless communications, expedites recovery processes, and safeguards service delivery.
Everbridge solutions for technology organizations
Critical event management
Protect your people and data while maintaining business continuity with real-time threat detection, automated alerts, and efficient communication during critical events.
Business continuity
Maintain seamless client services and safeguard sensitive data by proactively preparing for emergencies and responding swiftly to unexpected challenges.
Travel risk management
Provide peace of mind for your traveling and remote staff through timely alerts, actionable guidance, and tools that help them stay safe and confident throughout their journeys.
Digital operations
Prevent downtime and keep your operations running smoothly by quickly resolving disruptions and avoiding potential challenges before they escalate, ensuring seamless service delivery for clients.
Everbridge named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management
Empower resilience with the leading critical event management platform.
What outcomes can tech organizations expect?
Technology organizations utilizing Everbridge benefit from improved uptime, faster resolutions, and enhanced resilience. Operational vulnerabilities are minimized, keeping your systems and teams aligned during critical moments. Staff and customer safety are prioritized, leading to strengthened relationships and sustained business performance.
Additionally, Everbridge simplifies compliance requirements, ensuring your company not only meets but exceeds industry standards. By ensuring continuity and reliable service, Everbridge helps your organization thrive in a highly competitive, fast-evolving landscape.
Featured customer stories
Rackspace manages enterprise security with Everbridge
The Everbridge tool has just made it easy for Rackspace to reach a maximum number of people quickly and easily – regardless of whether it’s an active shooter event, an act of terrorism, or a weather-driven event or crisis.
Internal communications
innovations score proven results at leading telco
Everbridge’s Engage Solution, powered by SnapComms, helps to deliver internal communications innovation for leading telco company, Vodafone.
Santander saves time and cost with critical event management
Within a single platform, Santander can now coordinate all response activities, teams, and resources to accelerate recovery times and maintain command and control during a crisis.
How a global fintech company used BC in the Cloud® to increase efficiency
In any level of disruption, a company’s ability to respond quickly, accurately,
and in a controlled and coordinated fashion is critical to restoring normal
operations.
CIBC Mellon selected Everbridge to support its business continuity initiatives
Effective communication is critical to coordinating a corporate response to any type of event or business disruption. You need to be flexible and consider response, threat monitoring and planning as part of your program, and Everbridge helps us
to do all of this at once
Enhancing global operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment with Everbridge xMatters
Sony Interactive switched to Everbridge xMatters because it offered better customization options, seamless integration with their existing systems, and improved support for their evolving requirements.
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FAQs
Critical event management (CEM) helps technology organizations detect threats, coordinate response activities, communicate rapidly, and maintain operational continuity during disruptive events. CEM combines risk intelligence, incident orchestration, situational awareness, and communications to help protect employees, infrastructure, cloud services, development operations, and customer-facing systems during both cyber and physical incidents.
Traditional paging and incident tools primarily focus on alerting technical responders during IT incidents. Everbridge 360™ extends beyond incident escalation by combining AI-powered risk intelligence, operational resilience, situational awareness, employee safety, communications, and enterprise-wide coordination to help organizations manage both digital and physical disruptions from a unified platform.
Everbridge xMatters focuses on IT incident response, workflow automation, and DevOps orchestration for technical operations teams. Everbridge 360™ provides broader critical event management capabilities that include operational resilience, employee safety, threat intelligence, crisis communications, and enterprise-wide incident coordination. Many organizations use xMatters for IT operations and Everbridge 360™ for enterprise resilience and critical event management.
Everbridge supports integrations across ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Splunk, Okta, AWS, Azure, SSO and identity providers, HRIS systems, ITSM platforms, and enterprise applications. These integrations help technology organizations automate workflows, synchronize operational data, improve situational awareness, and coordinate response activities across distributed technical and operational environments.
Deployment timelines vary based on organizational complexity, integrations, and operational requirements, but many technology organizations begin with phased implementations focused on incident communications and operational resilience workflows. Typical phases include stakeholder alignment, integrations, workflow configuration, user onboarding, testing, training, and operational readiness exercises across global teams and business units.
Everbridge helps organizations accelerate incident detection, automate escalation workflows, coordinate communications, and improve operational visibility during disruptive events. Faster alert routing, centralized incident coordination, and automated workflows help reduce downtime, improve collaboration across technical teams, and accelerate mean time to resolve (MTTR) during IT and operational incidents.
Everbridge combines AI-powered risk intelligence, geospatial awareness, travel risk monitoring, and multi-channel communications to help organizations identify impacted employees and travelers during disruptive events. Real-time alerts, safety check-ins, automated workflows, and location-aware communications help organizations coordinate response activities and strengthen duty-of-care initiatives during evolving threats.
Everbridge helps organizations strengthen operational resilience, communications, incident coordination, auditability, and governance aligned with frameworks such as DORA, NIS2, ISO 22301, SOC 2, and GDPR-related operational requirements. Centralized workflows, reporting capabilities, and resilience testing support help organizations improve preparedness and operational continuity across regulated environments.
Technology organizations commonly measure improvements in time-to-alert, incident response speed, operational recovery times, employee accountability, downtime reduction, and escalation efficiency. Many organizations also track improvements in mean time to resolve (MTTR), operational continuity, workforce safety, and resilience readiness to benchmark operational performance and incident response maturity over time.
