Provided is a method for designing, managing and executing response plans.
Specific plan and resources are defined and a defined plan is executed
either automatically or manually according to pre-determined or
"real-time" parameter definitions. An executed plan notifies, by various
user-defined means, actively or pre-defined parties in a near
simultaneous fashion of security communications, notifications,
directives and/or information. One embodiment of the system includes a
component that requires a notified party to acknowledge a particular
notification event by responding with a personal identification number
(PIN) or calling a specified telephone number and entering the PIN. The
system enables parties to be organized into groups based upon member
profiles. Individual parties can be assigned to sub-groups, enabling
specifically designed communications to go to the parties of any
particular sub-group. Alternative means of contact can be prioritized and
utilized either simultaneously or sequentially until contact with a
particular party is achieved.