Fly the airplane

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" summary

Advocates using short, field-tested checklists (inspired by the Cessna emergency fly the airplane item) and running real war games that launch real DDoS attacks in production with proprietary attack tools (built in-house, not open source or for sale) so teams develop muscle memory; practices emphasize focus on mitigation not root cause during incidents and a strict postmortem feedback loop that updates checklists, drills, and tooling based on what actually worked.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:00Checklists
3. 1:53Mitigation
4. 2:23Checklist
5. 3:35Fire drills
6. 5:15Lessons learned
7. 6:00Postmortem analysis

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