What is an AI prompt injection response plan?

It is an incident-response plan that defines how teams detect, contain, and remediate prompt injection attacks with clear owner accountability.

Who should own prompt injection response?

Most teams assign shared ownership across AI safety, platform engineering, security, and operations with one incident commander accountable per event.

How often should prompt injection controls be reviewed?

Review weekly during active rollout and run immediate updates after each confirmed attack or major model/toolchain change.

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Team nameWorkflow nameExposure surfaceObserved attack vectorUser impactData sensitivityAttack frequency (events/week)Guardrail coverageOn-call coverage

Prompt injection risk score: 5/5 (Critical response)

P0 actions: 2 • P1 actions: 4 • Total actions: 7

Plan preview

# AI Prompt Injection Response Plan - Customer support copilot

## Incident context
- Team: AI Safety + Platform
- Workflow: Customer support copilot
- Exposure surface: Public chatbot
- Attack vector: Indirect prompt via retrieved content
- User impact: High
- Data sensitivity: Medium
- Attack frequency (weekly): 3
- Guardrail coverage: Filters + policy prompts
- On-call coverage: Business hours

## Response summary
- Prompt injection risk score (1-5): 5
- Risk band: Critical response
- Total action rows: 7
- P0 rows: 2
- P1 rows: 4

## Action register
| # | Phase | Action | Owner | Due window | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Triage | Capture attack payload, affected workflow, and first detection timestamp to classify injection severity. | AI Safety On-call | 30 minutes | P0 |
| 2 | Containment | Activate safe-response mode, restrict high-risk tool calls, and disable non-essential retrieval connectors. | Platform On-call | 1 hour | P0 |
| 3 | Policy hardening | Patch prompt policy, retrieval filtering rules, and tool-call allowlist to block observed injection vectors. | AI Engineering | 24 hours | P1 |
| 4 | Verification | Run adversarial test set and verify blocked payloads cannot trigger unsafe or unauthorized outputs. | QA + Red Team | 24 hours | P1 |
| 5 | Closure review | Publish incident summary, owner-assigned preventive actions, and update guardrail review cadence. | AI Program Owner | 48 hours | P1 |
| 6 | Customer safeguards | Enable customer-facing incident banner and fallback experience for impacted channels until protections are validated. | Customer Operations | 2 hours | P1 |
| 7 | Coverage expansion | Set 24x7 escalation rotation for injection alerts and publish after-hours response ownership. | SRE Manager | 7 days | P2 |

## Verification checklist
1. Run a 72-hour attack simulation watch and publish daily security updates until risk stabilizes.
2. Confirm each P0 action has one accountable owner and an updated status timestamp.
3. Verify containment preserved business-critical workflows without unsafe outputs.
4. Archive payload samples, policy changes, and validation evidence in the incident log.

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