Most incident response teams excel at what they do and have spent years assembling a strong cybersecurity stack. An alert fires and the playbook runs. The conditions that made reactive incident response sufficient are changing — and the teams getting ahead are the ones treating forensic readiness as part of their strategy — so they can see what the attacker actually did once inside, achieve full remediation and prove all of it. That work happens in a layer most cybersecurity stacks don’t have — the one that takes you from alert to answer.