3 Steps Executives and Boards Should Take to Ensure Cyber Readiness

This guidance advises executives and boards to prioritize cyber readiness by developing and documenting a formal incident response plan with a designated incident commander, conducting regular tabletop and wargame exercises to stress-test human and procedural responses, and assessing post-exercise failures to remediate gaps — all to ensure coordinated, timely, and effective action when a real cyber crisis occurs.