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At 07:30 on Monday the head of IT calls the CEO. Most office systems show a ransom note, email is down, and only the phones work. Staff are arriving and asking what to do. The note gives an email address and says the price doubles in 48 hours. Your cyber insurance policy sits in a shared folder that is now encrypted. Nobody is sure who should be in the room or who decides. In one hour the first customer calls will start. What happens in that hour?
A senior account executive resigned on Friday and joins a direct competitor in two weeks. On Monday, a data loss alert shows she synced 4,000 files to a personal cloud account over the weekend, including a full CRM export, pricing models and the customer contract folder. She is on garden leave but still has a working laptop and VPN access. Her manager insists she is trustworthy and that this is 'just her portfolio'. Legal wants to act before anything reaches the competitor. What do you do, and in what order?
Your incident response firm believes the attacker who compromised your identity provider can still get back in, but cannot yet prove how. Their recommendation: take single sign-on offline for all 3,000 staff for up to 24 hours from 18:00 tonight while they rebuild trust. That means no email, no CRM, no payroll system, no ticketing and no remote access. Sales has a quarter-end close in two days. Customers know nothing yet. The CEO wants a decision from the room by 17:00. What do you decide, and what are you accepting by deciding it?
At 21:30 on a Sunday, armed police surround your CEO’s house after a hoax call reporting a hostage situation. Nobody is hurt, but her teenage son was handcuffed on the lawn. Within the hour, an anonymous social media account posts your CFO’s home address and writes ‘he’s next’ in a thread about recent layoffs at your 3,000-person logistics business. Some of the executives’ personal details appear to come from a data broker. Monday’s all-staff meeting at headquarters is in twelve hours. How do you protect people tonight, and what changes tomorrow?
It is 07:40. Overnight your SOC confirmed that an intruder has had access to the customer database for at least nine days. Containment is under way but not finished. The chair has heard a rumour from another director and wants a call with the full board at 18:00 today. You do not yet know how many records were taken, whether the attacker is still inside, or whether a regulatory clock has started. You have ten hours to decide what the board needs to hear, who says it, and what you will refuse to guess at.
At 14:10 on a Friday your online store is taken offline by an attack that has encrypted the order database. The CEO is on a 14-hour flight with no reliable connectivity and lands tomorrow morning. The COO is on leave. Someone has to decide whether to shut down the payment gateway, whether to tell customers, and whether to engage an incident response firm that wants 250,000 dollars up front. The incident plan says 'the CEO approves'. It says nothing else.
Ninety days after closing the purchase of a 500-person engineering firm, your team starts connecting its network to yours. EDR, newly installed on their servers, flags a scheduled task that calls out to an external host every six hours. It has existed since before the deal was announced. The two Active Directory forests already share a trust, and 40 of the firm's admins have accounts in your environment. Integration milestones are tied to executive bonuses. Do you cut the trust today?