Most cyber recovery playbooks were built around a set of assumptions that made sense when they were written. They assumed the scope of an incident would be understood, dependencies would be mapped, and recovery would follow a predictable sequence.
Today’s threat environment challenges those assumptions. AI and autonomous agents are creating new paths to compromise and accelerating how quickly vulnerabilities are discovered and weaponized. Cloud and SaaS expansion continues to increase the number of systems, services, and dependencies involved in recovery. As incidents unfold, scope expands; unexpected dependencies appear, and the sequence envisioned in the plan no longer matches the reality on the ground.
