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Books have been written on the laws of motion, and great strides in science have been gained through the study of motion and speed. The fundamental laws of motion still apply, and the truth of the principle that “things in motion stay in motion” is undeniable. In the context of speed, cybersecurity, leadership, and your job, the ability to act fast starts with the basic ability to act. In this arena, inertia is counter to growing in capability and speed over time. Often, we wait too long to enable our organizations with capabilities because of limited funding, resources, or just wanting a plan that is 100 percent complete every time. This approach is not helpful, nor is it necessary, because it will inevitably result in being too late to begin to create a necessary capability at the time it is most needed.

A simple tool in the development of operational effectiveness in the face of speed is to create supporting services, resources, and capabilities aligned with the scope of your mission that will be most applicable in the core areas of prevention, detection, response, and recovery. The idea is not to create these capabilities at 100 percent, but rather to have a baseline operating framework, knowledge, and understanding that can be refined and used over time. By maintaining this aggregate line-level capability, ensuring you and your organization understand it, adding it to your concept of operations, and knowing not only how it is applied but how to grow it, you can implement resources faster than if you were starting from scratch. Even though they may be minimal in normal operations, your ability to grow them fast and apply them faster will be significantly greater than if you had to start from the beginning.