The night of her performance, my team and I at my previous employer dealt with a P1 cyberattack that came in through unpatched software during the day. Addressing the breach was mostly a manual, chaotic process. Our recovery and remediation activities extended well past 10 p.m.—and long after my daughter had performed. My former organization, a prominent financial services company, was already hamstrung with a disconnected inventory of hybrid IT assets from at least 15 sources across multiple departments as well as a host of disparate tools to track those assets. It took about 90 staff hours just to generate an asset inventory. And it often took weeks of manual activities to identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities, patching needs, and compliance issues, then remediate them