AI startup
Series-B, AI-first, six new AI risks in your register.
A 200-person AI startup. AI-specific risks (prompt injection, model theft, training-data poisoning, shadow AI, supply-chain) appear in your register. Board grants 20% extra budget for AI tooling.
What is the AI startup scenario?
A 200-person AI startup. AI-specific risks (prompt injection, model theft, training-data poisoning, shadow AI, supply-chain) appear in your register. Board grants 20% extra budget for AI tooling. AI-first companies inherit a fast-evolving threat surface — prompt injection, training-data poisoning, model theft, shadow AI usage. The EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF are still maturing, so the program's job is to build attestable controls before regulators codify them.
How does the AI startup scenario start?
- Difficulty: standard
- Tech profile: Cloud-Native SaaS
- Region: Global
- Starting team: 1 ciso
- Year-1 budget: $600k
- Annual budget growth: 25%
- AI focus: enabled — 6 AI-specific risks (R23–R28) active in the register
How do you win the AI startup scenario?
AI risks (R23-R28, R47-R52) are active. AI-specific tooling unlocked in catalog.
Which risks matter most in AI startup?
- R13 Data ExfiltrationData · severity 9
- R24 Training Data PoisoningAI · severity 9
- R30 EU AI Act High-Risk Non-ConformityAI · severity 9
- R23 Prompt Injection / JailbreakingAI · severity 8
- R25 Model Theft / IP ExfiltrationAI · severity 8
- R28 AI Supply Chain CompromiseAI · severity 8
Which investments are recommended for AI startup?
Strong starting purchases for this scenario, ordered by relevance:
- AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)AI Security
- AI Firewall (LLM I/O guardrails)AI Security
- AI Red Team engagement (annual)AI Security
- AI Prompt-DLP (LLM I/O classification)AI Security
- Model SBOM + ProvenanceAI Security
- AI System Inventory & ClassificationAI Security
How do you start playing the AI startup scenario?
Click Play CISO Game free to start a no-signup demo run. On the Setup screen, pick the AI startup tile and the difficulty, budget, and team will pre-fill. Hit Start Game and you're in.