How to Build an AI Agent Incident Response Program
SC Media, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
An eight-stage framework for responding to AI agent incidents that standard IR procedures cannot address.
AI agents create incident response gaps requiring specialized procedures beyond traditional security operations. The program establishes an eight-stage decision chain addressing agent authority violations, delegation paths, and action reconstruction when governance controls fail.
Key stages include detecting agent-initiated events through extended SIEM and EDR monitoring, identifying delegation chains, reconstructing decision traces, assessing impact, containing tool access, executing rollbacks, preserving evidence, and updating controls.
Implementation requires agent registries, structured logging that captures prompts and tool invocations, and integration with SecOps, identity, and governance teams.