Who Decides at 8 A.M.?

Sunday, 7:40 a.m. IT has taken the plant off the network. Everything done right. On Monday there is still a question on the table that no IT team can answer: Who decides that production stays off the network? And who tells the customers, the bank, the workforce? Only the leadership team can answer that. Not the head of IT, and not the vendor. This book follows a midsize, family-owned German auto supplier through the first four weeks after a cyberattack: the five decisions of the first morning, the calculation in the drawer, the customer who won't wait, the insurer who reads the application, and the question the advisory board asks at the end. In between are documented cases from real companies, from Pilz, the German automation maker, to a British automaker that stood still for more than five weeks. Part IV is a playbook: an exercise day with your own leadership team, with role cards, an agenda, twelve inject cards and a debrief sheet. The working materials are free at viama.one/buch, in German. For CEOs, managing directors, owners and leadership teams of manufacturing companies who want to know what lands on them after the call on Sunday morning, and who want to have rehearsed it once before it happens. Dr. Marco Lück has worked for more than 25 years where IT, information security and corporate leadership meet, including as a CISO. He sells neither firewalls nor penetration tests. If the answer to the question in the title takes you longer than ten seconds, this book is for you.