Incident log
The timestamped, contemporaneous record of an incident: facts, decisions, and actors, in a timestamp / event-or-decision / who form. It is the deliverable of the night, feeding the post-incident review, the customer letter, the evaluation suite, and any later forensic reconstruction.
Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 5 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP).
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A single, append-only, contemporaneously written record of every material event and decision during an active incident, with a consistent structure per entry (time, event or decision, who decided, information available, rationale). The primary artifact this topic produces; distinct from a report written after the fact from memory.
The timestamped, contemporaneous record of an incident: facts, decisions, and actors, in a timestamp / event-or-decision / who form. It is the deliverable of the night, feeding the post-incident review, the customer letter, the evaluation suite, and any later forensic reconstruction.
The single, time-stamped source-of-truth record, started at the moment of first escalation, that every stakeholder-tier message should be checked against to prevent factual drift between different audiences' communications.
The dated record of what happened when an AI system caused or nearly caused harm, produced in Module 3 and stored in the dossier alongside the disclosure letter that followed it. (see Topic 3.7)
A timestamped record of what happened and when, at each stage of a drill or real incident, forming the factual backbone of the other three core documents.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- The 2 a.m. data incident: run the response live, stakeholders calling · Data Incidents, Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP)
- Your command tools: the Briefcase, the professor, the dossier you will build · Taking Command, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- The 2 a.m. incident: your system fails live, stakeholders are calling, run the response · Shipping AI and Surviving the Incident, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- Crisis Communication · Enforcement and Incident Response, Certified China AI Regulatory Professional (CCARP)
- Lab: Incident Response Drill · Enforcement and Incident Response, Certified China AI Regulatory Professional (CCARP)
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where Incident log starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Classifies AI incidents by severity, runs containment, preserves evidence, manages notification, and closes the loop with lessons learned.
3 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- Chief Information Security Officer, AI security focusneeds it at depth
- AI Incident Response Leadneeds it at depth · 1 open posting this week
- Chief Privacy Officer, AI privacy editionneeds working knowledge
- Chief Risk Officer, AI risk editionneeds working knowledge
- AI Security Architectneeds working knowledge · 8 open postings this week
- Physical AI Safety Engineer, autonomous systems editionneeds working knowledge
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: EU AI Act Article 73; ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A incident controls; NIST AI RMF MANAGE 4.
One interview question about it
An AI system has just caused harm to a customer. Walk me through the first 48 hours.
Asked of candidates for ai incident response and recovery. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Cybersecurity and IT carries it as work you can show: Incident playbooks and post-incident reviews are your artifacts.
- A cybersecurity or information assurance degree carries it as a claim to back up: Incident response is a course; AI incidents add model failure to the playbook.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.