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Before I stumbled into the tech industry (a story for another day), I spent several years in the customer service world as a server and front-of-house manager in restaurants. It was in these jobs that I first honed some critical skills that would later lead me on the path to incident response.

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It has been lightly revised and reposted with his permission from the original article on Medium. Leading major incident responses can be extremely stressful. You have to quickly gather an ad-hoc team, figure out what went wrong, identify a fix and make sure this doesn't make things worse, all the while with senior leadership breathing down your neck. Are we having fun yet? Many people think having a dedicated incident commander role will solve the problem.