Episode 75 — Build a Cross-Functional Playbook: Who Does What During AI Risk Events (Domain 2)

When an AI risk event occurs, time is the enemy, and a cross-functional playbook is the primary tool for a coordinated and effective response. This episode details the creation of such a playbook, focusing on the specific roles and responsibilities of legal, security, data science, and communications teams during a crisis. For the AAIR certification, you must understand how to design these workflows to ensure that technical containment (like shutting down an API) happens simultaneously with legal reviews and stakeholder notifications. We discuss the importance of pre-defined "playbooks" for common scenarios like data leakage from an LLM or a discovered bias in a hiring algorithm. Best practices include running tabletop exercises to test the playbook and identify communication bottlenecks before a real incident occurs. By establishing these clear operational paths, organizations can reduce "mean time to recovery" and ensure that their response to AI failures is disciplined, transparent, and aligned with their overall risk strategy. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.

What is Certified: The ISACA AAIR Audio Course?

Welcome to Certified: The ISACA AAIR Audio Course. If you’re here, you’re probably seeing AI show up everywhere: in products, in internal tools, in vendor roadmaps, and in executive conversations that expect quick answers. I built this course for people who need to evaluate AI systems responsibly, even when they don’t have time to become machine learning specialists. Across these episodes, we’ll translate AI concepts into assurance language you can use: governance, controls, evidence, risk, and accountability. You’ll learn how to ask better questions, how to recognize weak assurances, and how to frame findings in ways leaders can actually act on. Expect clear explanations, practical structure, and a focus on what matters when AI becomes part of a business process.

To get the most from Certified: The ISACA AAIR Audio Course, treat it like a steady routine rather than a one-time binge. Listen in short sessions, replay episodes that cover areas you touch at work, and pause when you hear a concept you want to use in a meeting or a review plan. The point is to build repeatable thinking: a way to approach AI governance, risk, and assurance that holds up under real deadlines. If you’re preparing for the AAIR exam, use each episode to tighten your understanding of terms and your ability to apply them. If you’re using this for work, think about one current AI use case and mentally apply the lens from each lesson. Follow the show so new episodes land automatically, and keep moving forward even if you can only do a few minutes at a time.