The New Cyber Gap Is Response Latency
TechRadar, Monday, May 25th, 2026
Organizations fail at coordinated incident response despite strong detection tools, exposing critical gaps in operational readiness.
While organizations invest heavily in threat detection, they often lack the organizational discipline and preparedness to execute coordinated responses when incidents occur.
The real bottleneck isn't finding threats faster, but translating technical alerts into organized business action, a gap exposed by increasingly rapid attacks like Medusa ransomware campaigns that compress exploitation to exfiltration into 24 hours.
Key failures stem from scattered knowledge about critical systems, informal escalation procedures, and decision-making processes that only crystallize during actual incidents.
The solution requires moving beyond tool-focused security to implement disciplined operating models with clearly defined critical systems, dependencies, fallback procedures, and authority structures established before incidents occur, not during them.