The Readiness Gap

Why Knowledge Alone Doesn’t Build Cyber Readiness

A framework for understanding where human capability is lost between learning and real-world performance.

About the Author

Maria-Kristina Hayden is the founder and CEO of OUTFOXM, a cyber wargaming firm focused on the human side of crisis response. She advises boards, CISOs and mid-market executives on human cyber risk, cyber resiliency and intelligence, using realistic wargames that go beyond compliance theater. A former Cyber Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency and Director of Cyber Awareness and Wargaming at BNY Mellon, Maria-Kristina speaks at venues from Capitol Hill to news broadcasts to corporate boardrooms. Roughly 40 wargames designed and facilitated across 9 years of practice.

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