The first hour after discovering a cyberattack shapes everything that happens afterward, and most businesses have never thought through what that hour should actually look like. Panic and improvisation in that window tend to make the damage worse, not better.
The first steps matter: isolating affected systems to stop the spread, documenting what's known so far, and contacting the right people, not necessarily in that order, but all quickly. Waiting to "figure out how bad it is" before taking any action often costs more time than the incident itself.
Having a plan for that first hour, before anything ever happens, is one of the clearest differences between a business that recovers in a day and one that's down for a week.
Does your business have any kind of plan for the first steps to take if a system was compromised today?
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Canva text suggestion: "The First Hour Matters Most" or "Do You Have a Plan for the Worst Day?"