Forbes September 18, 2025
When a breach hits, speed matters. But the thing that slows teams most isn’t the malware or the exploit—it’s confusion. The 2025 State of Cybersecurity Incident Response Management (CIRM) Report shows a hard truth: internal misalignment often creates more chaos than the attacker.
Plans look good on paper, but under pressure, they collapse.
The study—based on responses from 480 senior cybersecurity leaders, including 165 CISOs—reveals the same pattern across industries. Decision ownership shifts. Legal and communications join too late. Tool sprawl creates friction when seconds count. And too few organizations rehearse the messy scenarios that real breaches bring. The problem isn’t a lack of technology. It’s the inability to execute.
Nimrod Kozlovski, founder and CEO of Cytactic, put it plainly:...
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