Incident reporting deadlines change response priorities
When a clock starts running, the order of work changes.
Technical instinct is to understand first and report once you know. A seventy-two hour deadline, or a shorter sectoral one, means preparing the notification becomes a parallel workstream from the first hours, using incomplete facts. Teams that have not planned for it discover the conflict at the worst moment.
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