Five common difficulties in the first hours of a cyber crisis:
Waiting too long to activate the crisis team,
Continuing to use tools whose reliability is uncertain,
Multiplying communication channels,
Failing to centralise key information,
Or never testing procedures in realistic conditions.
These situations often lead to:
Loss of coordination,
Slower decisions,
Overloaded teams,
And progressively disorganised crisis management.
Exercises regularly show that rapid organisation and the ability to switch into crisis mode directly affect the quality of the operational response.