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SecurityWeek AI Security · October 20, 2026

Agent incident drills: verify shutdown, evidence, and recovery before restart

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Why it matters

Joint NIST, CISA, and NSA guidance gives ten voluntary practices for highly capable agents in training and evaluation. It separates unexpected activity from adversarially instructed actions and calls for protected monitors, retained evidence, rapid containment, and checks before restarting. The guidance is an operational checklist, not a certification or a new reporting law.

My takeaway: Rehearse a harmless control failure in an isolated environment. Verify that monitoring detects it, the affected agent stops, and its credentials lose access. Preserve configuration and tamper-resistant traces, then rebuild from a verified baseline. Replay the failure to check logging, egress restrictions, and shutdown behavior before an accountable owner authorizes restart.
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