What’s your first move when your email gets hacked at 3 AM? If you’re scrambling, guessing, or frantically Googling, you’re already losing.

In this deep dive, we break down the dramatic difference between improvising during a crisis and simply following your incident response plan. You’ll hear real scenarios—the weekend website hack, the locked-out nightmare—and see exactly how a simple written checklist turns potential catastrophe into a managed incident.

You’ll learn:

* Why 20 minutes of prep today beats 3 days of panic tomorrow

* What actually goes in your IR plan (for businesses AND individuals)

* How to store critical recovery info securely

* The “tale of two crises” that shows why this matters

Whether you run a boutique law firm or just want to protect your personal accounts, this is your roadmap for when things go wrong. Because they will go wrong—for everyone, eventually.

This is Part 3 of the Incident Response series. Building on IR-4 (what to do when things break) and IR-5 (how to spot problems early), IR-8 gives you the written game plan that ties it all together.

Subscribe for the complete incident response series (IR-1 through IR-8).

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