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Define: "Mean Time to Innocence (MTTI)" in Business

The corporate definition of Mean Time to Innocence (MTTI)
Fiscal Threat Level
LOW IMPACT

Minimal fiscal damage

CWO Pro-Tip

"Keep pre-saved PCAP filters ready on your desktop. The faster you prove it's an application error, the faster you get off the 2 AM bridge call."

What HR thinks it means:

A metric measuring the average time required for a technical team to demonstrate that an infrastructure failure was not caused by their systems.

What does "Mean Time to Innocence (MTTI)" actually mean?

"The exact amount of time it takes network engineering to pull packet captures and prove the developers broke their own application."

How HR uses it:

"We are tracking Mean Time to Innocence as part of our cross-departmental incident response framework."

How you actually use it:

"Our MTTI was under four minutes because I dropped the Wireshark pcap straight into the bridge chat before the AppDev lead finished blaming the firewall."

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By The Chief Waste Officer

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Published: 2026-07-24

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