AI Incident Response — Your Agent Was Compromised. Prompt Injection, Data Exfiltration, System Down. Your CISO Called the CEO. You Have No Playbook.
Your agent has no incident response, no detection and no containment. Prompt injection attacks, compromised agents, data leaks. 48h downtime, customers lost, your CEO fired the CISO. Here's how to prevent it.
What is Incident Response? Simply explained.
Think of incident response like an emergency plan: detect the incident quickly, stop the spread, restore the system and learn from it. For AI agents, this means: detection for prompt injection, containment for compromised agents, recovery for rollback, post-mortem for learning. Good incident response means: never be unprepared again.
↓ Jump to technical depth5-Layer Incident Response Architecture
Detection
Detect prompt injection, anomalies and compromised agents in real-time. Alerting and triaging.
detection: enabled: true prompt_injection: true anomaly_detection: true real_time_alerting: true
Containment
Stop the spread through agent isolation, tool shutdown and session kill.
containment: enabled: true agent_isolation: true tool_shutdown: true session_kill: true
Recovery
Restore the system through rollback, patching and redeployment.
recovery: enabled: true rollback: true patching: true redeployment: true
Post-Mortem
Analyze the incident, document lessons learned and update playbooks.
post_mortem: enabled: true root_cause_analysis: true lessons_learned: true playbook_update: true
Continuous Improvement
Improve continuously through simulations, drills and automation.
continuous_improvement: enabled: true simulations: true drills: true automation: true
Real-World Scars: Production Incidents
Prompt injection without detection. Agent compromised, data exfiltrated. Fix: Detection, containment, recovery.
Compromised agent without containment. Spread to all systems. Fix: Containment, isolation.
Immediate Actions: What to do today?
Enable Detection
Enable prompt injection detection for all agents.
Create Containment Playbook
Create containment playbook for agent isolation.
Test Recovery Rollback
Test recovery rollback for all critical systems.
Interactive Incident Response Checklist
Incident Response Maturity Score Calculator
Industry Average: 22/100