Advanced event response strategies

An event response should be simple and organized, and it should bring about the solution to whatever caused the event in the first place. But, once again, no matter how hard we try, it is never that simple. Sometimes you’re working with a system you haven’t had the chance to work with much. Sometimes the team that you work with is not experienced enough to help out in any meaningful way. These circumstances cannot be helped because of time and personnel constraints, and they are largely out of our control. In such situations, we simply have to make do with what we have.

But there is one scenario that happens very often and causes widespread damage to the point where the response to the event stops being about damage recovery and starts being about what you can recover from the damage already done. This will occur if any sort of incident goes unreported or unmonitored for a long period of time. These situations often occur when there...