Episode 115: Incident Preparation – Building a Response Program

The best incident response doesn’t start with detection—it starts with preparation. In this episode, we walk through the preparation phase of the incident response lifecycle, focusing on how organizations create, document, and test their response plans. You’ll learn about IR playbooks, tabletop exercises, escalation matrices, and readiness assessments—all designed to ensure teams know their roles and actions before a crisis hits.

We also discuss how security tools are selected, pre-positioned, and integrated into workflows, and how business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning supports response efforts. This episode emphasizes that effective incident response is a team sport with defined playbooks, not an improvised reaction. For CySA+ and real-world performance alike, preparation is the difference between damage and containment. Brought to you by BareMetalCyber.com