The first time you’ll hear, “We’re always in incident mode,” it won’t be said with drama. It will be said the way you mention the weather. Grey again. Pager again. And that’s the problem. When a constant alarm becomes normal, your team stops asking the only question that matters. Why do we keep ending up here? You can buy more tools. You can hire more analysts. You can hang more dashboards. You’ll still end up sprinting after the last breach, the last misconfiguration, the last vendor surprise, the last “minor” change that ate your weekend. The best cyber teams we’ve worked with didn’t win because they ran faster. They won because they were adaptive and changed the risk landscape. They built...