Response
The posture pillar that measures how decisively your team contains and remediates an incident. IR retainers, playbooks, tabletop exercises, and a dedicated IR engineer move it. High Detection without Response just means you watch breaches in real time.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Response is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Response appears throughout the simulation — in the risk register, the investment catalog, and the mechanics reference — so a player encounters the concept in context rather than as an isolated definition.
See it in play
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