A cyber incident inside a critical infrastructure environment starts two clocks at once. The first tracks the attacker's movement: credential use, lateral access, persistence, data collection, and disruption. The second measures how quickly defenders can establish what happened, determine the operational consequence, authorize containment, preserve safety, satisfy reporting obligations, and restore trusted operations. For many U.S. operators, the second clock still runs too slowly. This is the incident readiness gap. Security teams may identify suspicious behavior within hours, yet the organization can take days or weeks to determine whether industrial control systems are…
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