5 Costly Mistakes in Cyber Incident Response Preparation

**Executive summary:** This guidance emphasizes the importance of documented, exercised incident response plans and a Collection Management Framework for both IT and OT environments, recommends centralizing key log sources and OT-capable sensors, highlights OT-specific forensic and procedural constraints (including local data collection and alignment with facility emergency operations), and advises organizations to consider incident response retainers and carefully vet firms to avoid costly or damaging response efforts.