AI Incident Response Preparedness
Plans, playbooks and exercises that prepare your organization to respond when an AI system is attacked, misused or behaves in ways that cause harm.
AI Incidents Do Not Fit Existing Playbooks
When an AI system is involved in an incident, the usual response steps raise new questions. How do you contain an agent that has been manipulated through a poisoned document? How do you determine what data a chatbot disclosed when the conversation logs are incomplete? Who decides whether to take a customer-facing AI feature offline, and how quickly can it be done? Do you need to notify customers or regulators if a model produced harmful or discriminatory output?
Most incident response plans were written before AI was in production and do not answer these questions. The White Knight Labs AI Incident Response Preparedness service closes that gap, drawing on our experience testing AI systems and responding to security incidents.
Types of AI Incidents We Prepare For
Prompt injection leading to data exposure or unauthorized actions
Sensitive or regulated data disclosed through an AI assistant or retrieval system confirm the testing period.
Compromised or misbehaving AI agents acting on connected systems
Model or dataset tampering and supply chain compromise
Abuse of AI features for fraud, spam or content generation at scale
Harmful, biased or legally problematic model output reaching customers
Leakage of proprietary models, prompts or training data
What We Deliver
Readiness Assessment
We review your current incident response plan, AI inventory, logging and monitoring, and decision authority for AI systems, and identify gaps specific to AI incidents.
AI Incident Playbooks
We write playbooks for the AI incident types most relevant to you, covering detection, triage, containment options such as disabling tools or features, evidence collection, eradication and recovery.
Roles and Escalation
We define who owns AI incidents across security, engineering, product, legal, privacy and communications, and how decisions such as disabling an AI feature are made.
Evidence and Logging Requirements
We specify the prompts, responses, retrieved content, tool calls and model versions that must be logged and retained to investigate an AI incident.
Optional Tabletop Exercise
As an option to help secure your incident response preparedness, we run a facilitated exercise based on a realistic AI incident scenario to test the new playbooks and roles with the people who will use them. We will customize the scenario to your specific AI threat profile and realistic attack tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Our Approach
Our playbooks are built from real attack techniques, not theory. The same team that performs AI red teaming and LLM security assessments helps design your response procedures, so the scenarios reflect how AI systems are compromised in practice. The work aligns with NIST SP 800-61, NIST AI RMF and the incident management requirements in ISO/IEC 42001.
Engagement Process
Discovery
We review AI systems in scope, existing incident response documentation and logging capabilities.
Gap Analysis
We compare current capability against AI-specific response requirements and prioritize gaps.
Playbook Development
We develop playbooks, escalation paths and logging requirements with your teams.
Exercise and Refine
We test the playbooks in a tabletop exercise and refine them based on the results.
What You Receive
AI incident response readiness assessment
AI-specific incident playbooks integrated with your existing plan
RACI and escalation matrix for AI incidents
Logging and evidence retention requirements for AI systems
Optional: Tabletop exercise and after-action report
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RISK REDUCTION
Our risk reduction strategy melds unparalleled technical acumen with a client-focused approach to deliver targeted, cost-effective, and accessible solutions that fortify your organization against the ever- evolving cyber threat landscape.
BUSINESS INTEGRITY
We leverage our cybersecurity expertise to safeguard your business integrity, ensuring you operate securely, move forward confidently, and build trust in an interconnected digital world.
DATA PROTECTION
We deploy cutting-edge cybersecurity measures and personalized strategies to offer unwavering data protection, reinforcing our commitment to preserving your company’s invaluable digital assets.
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