Do it, do it NOW! - A Pre-Incident Checklist w/ Patterson

Post-incident “lessons learned” are extremely valuable and very, very expensive!

But you don’t have to wait until “right of boom” to make meaningful improvements to your cybersecurity resilience!
 
Join us for a free one-hour webcast with Patterson Cake from Black Hills Information Security: Do it, do it NOW!! A Pre-Incident Checklist.
 
You’ll learn the top 10 low-effort, high-impact lessons every business should review and fix before a cybersecurity incident.

🛝 Webcast Slides
https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/SLIDES_IR-Preparedness-Checklist-03032026.pdf

Chapters

• (00:00) - Intro - Do it, do it NOW! - A Pre-Incident Checklist - Patterson
• (06:27) - Presuppositions
• (08:28) - In the event of an Emergency...
• (10:04) - YOUR INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN IS USELESS
• (12:47) - YOUR CYBER INSURANCE PROVIDER SHOULD NOT BE YOUR ADVERSARY
• (15:44) - YOUR LOG DETAIL & RETENTION ARE INADEQUATE
• (18:51) - YOUR MOST IMPORTANT ASSET IS __________
• (20:48) - IMPLEMENT OUT-OF-BAND COMMS BEFORE CRISIS & TEST REGULARLY
• (23:34) - YOUR STAFF ARE AWESOME BUT NOT SUPERHUMAN
• (25:45) - EFFECTIVE IR TAKES TRAINING & PRACTICE
• (28:04) - YOU MUST HAVE IMMUTABLE BACKUPS
• (31:45) - YOU HAVE 0 HOURS TO FIX INTERNET-FACING VULNERABILITIES
• (35:11) - THE TWO IR PLAYBOOKS YOU NEED MOST
• (43:48) - 10 Things
• (50:49) - Q&A
• (57:37) - The "Working with BHIS" part

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