You’ve built the detailed incident response plan. You’ve documented everything. Recovery codes, contact lists, procedures—it’s all there in perfectly organized folders.

But at 2 AM, when your main email is compromised and your brain has turned to soup, where exactly is all that perfect planning?

This episode reveals why your most important security document isn’t the detailed IR-8 plan—it’s the one-page IR-1 overview you can grab when you’re panicking. Think of it as the emergency card in your wallet versus your entire medical history. You’ll discover why human memory fails under stress, how to outsource panic thinking to your calm past self, and the three simple categories that transform chaos into clarity in under a minute.

You’ll learn:

* Why documentation alone isn’t enough (accessibility matters)

* How to predetermine your triage priorities before crisis hits

* The mental circuit breaker that stops fire-flight overreactions

* Where to store your IR-1 so you’ll actually find it under duress

From email compromises to ransomware attacks, this foundational framework ensures you can execute your security plan precisely when clear thinking has flown out the window.

This is IR-1, the first and most critical control in the Incident Response series—your index, mission statement, and psychological defense mechanism all in one page.

Duration: ~10 minutes

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

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