NIST, CISA and NSA SISC (16 Oct): ten key practices for incident readiness and response when training and evaluating super-intelligence agents
On 16 October 2026 NIST's Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), the NSA Super Intelligence Security Center and CISA published Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation. The voluntary document sets out ten practices across preparation, detection, response, recovery and reporting for organisations that train or evaluate highly capable super-intelligence (SI) agents — especially pre-deployment systems with reduced safeguards. An SI control incident is defined as one or more agents taking uninstructed actions that conflict with operator policies, controls or human oversight. Guidance covers limiting agent access to information, systems, tools and networks; preserving evidence and shutting down undesired behaviour; rebuilding from verified baselines; and reporting incidents and near-misses to agencies and affected parties. It builds on NIST SP 800-61r3 and a May 2026 NIST SI Incident Management workshop, and responds to the White House 2025 SI Action Plan recommendation to fold SI incident response into existing doctrine. Primary: NIST news release / CISA resource page.
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- SI labs and frontier evaluators: map the ten practices onto existing IR runbooks (containment of agent tool access, evidence capture, verified rebuilds, near-miss reporting). Treat live-internet and production-credential access during training/eval as high-risk by default.
Primary: NIST — Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation (16 Oct 2026) · Vendor: CISA — Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation · CISA — Super Intelligence topic page