AI Incident Response

Tier 1 MONITOR

What This Requires

Develop AI-specific incident response plan covering: detection, triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review. Define incident types (security breach, bias, drift, outage) and response procedures. Conduct annual tabletop exercise.

Why It Matters

Generic incident response misses AI-specific scenarios (prompt injection, model poisoning, bias incidents). Tailored plan ensures rapid, appropriate response.

How To Implement

Define Incident Types

Categories: (1) Security (prompt injection, data exfiltration), (2) Performance (drift, outage), (3) Bias/Fairness (discriminatory outputs), (4) Safety (harmful content generation).

Response Procedures

For each type, define: detection criteria (alerts, user reports), triage (assess severity), containment (disable feature, roll back model), eradication (fix root cause), recovery (deploy fix, validate), post-incident review.

Roles & Communication

Designate incident commander, technical lead, comms lead. Define escalation path (on-call → manager → exec). Template for user communication (status page, email).

Tabletop Exercise

Annually simulate incident (e.g., prompt injection exfiltrating PII). Walk through response steps, identify gaps, update plan.

Evidence & Audit

  • Incident response plan document
  • Incident type definitions and response procedures
  • Roles and escalation matrix
  • Communication templates
  • Tabletop exercise reports with lessons learned

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