If Incident Management is about orchestration, Incident Analysis is about understanding, and Response Communications is about control of the narrative, then Mitigation is about decisive action . Mitigation is where security teams move from talking about risk to actively reducing it —while the incident is still unfolding. In my experience, this is the moment executives remember most: “Did we stop the damage?” NIST CSF 2.0 Respond – Mitigation (RS.MI) exists to ensure that the answer is yes. What Is RS.MI in NIST CSF 2.0? RS.MI focuses on containing, eliminating, and limiting the impact of a cybersecurity incident through deliberate technical and procedural actions. It addresses questions such as: How do we stop the threat from spreading? What actions reduce immediate business impact? How do we prevent reinfection or recurrence during response? How do we balance speed with safety? Mitigation is not recovery—and it is not root cause analysis. It is controlled damage reduction under pr...