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Dan Lohrmann a Cybersecurity Leader| CxO Advisor | Bestselling Author and Bikash Barai Co- founder @ FireCompass and CISO Platform, discusses the importance of being prepared for unexpected scenarios and adapting plans accordingly, using the example of a blackout and the need to be ready for the unpredictable.

Here is the verbatim discussion: o we're going to put him down in the basement, and you can call him on the phone, but he can't be in the room here. He can'tlookat any of the stuff, you know, going on. So, you know, that happens a lot. So, you know, try and, you know, that's one way. You can throw them a curve or you can something they're not expecting, because inevitably, whatever you plan, whatever you're thinking, whenever you think you're ready, you're never ready, right? Because it's never exactly like, I remember during the blackout of zero, three people said, you know, afterwards we got, I gotinterviewed by all these tv stations. Were you ready? Were you ready? And im like, well,we didn't have that exact scenario of, like, this blackout, you know, but we did have a lot of the plans. We had just run a tabletop exercise.