When a cyberattack hits your business, what you do in the first hour dictates everything that follows. It is the critical window that determines whether an incident is contained quickly or metastasizes into a multi-week operational shutdown. The first 60 minutes are also when it's easiest to make costly, panicked mistakes—like turning off the wrong server, wiping forensic evidence, or sending status updates from an email account the attacker is actively monitoring. Here is a