The Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) has launched a new app that provides support for businesses in staying safe on and offline.

Through targeted push notifications, businesses that download the app are informed of threats to their operations including cyber threats, traffic, and protestor activity, and be given accurate sector-specific guidance within minutes.

The centre said that the app, which has been developed with support from the Scottish government, will be especially beneficial to businesses which have heightened concerns around cyber-attacks and other threats to business activity as COP26 approaches.

It will provide notifications coded into red, amber and green levels of priority, with the aim of better informing businesses and allowing them to distinguish which alerts will require immediate action and those that will require monitoring.

The tailored alerts are powered by user insights gathered at registration through a brief multiple-choice questionnaire capturing their industry, location, and specific concerns or challenges they may be facing.

Using these details, the app will only share relevant threat insights with users – something likely to prove valuable in preparation for, during and after COP26.

“Our aim at SBRC is to ensure that no Scottish business fails because of lack of knowledge or support when it comes to their resilience,” said Jude McCorry, chief executive, SBRC. “When the pandemic hit, there was an incredible amount of detail shared with businesses which, at times, may have been overwhelming or only applied to the few rather than the many. We’ve taken learnings from this on how important it is to keep the business industry informed of the updates that directly affect them.”

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