10/28/2026
Cybersecurity Awareness Month often emphasizes how quickly incidents should be reported.
But for leadership teams, an equally important question is whether the decisions that follow have already been defined.
The organizations that navigate incidents most effectively aren't figuring out authority, escalation paths, and responsibilities in real time. They're establishing them before they're needed.
If your organization declared an incident tonight, who would make the critical decisions, and where is that documented?