Buyer-side decision method · Defensive AI
Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability
Define the decision boundary before comparing suppliers: make the permitted action, authority ceiling, consequence owner, rollback path and conditions for reopening the decision explicit and reviewable.
Publication record
- Published / edition
- 2026-08-31
- Evidence cutoff
- 31 August 2026
- Coverage
- A complete buyer-side method supported by a 103-row public-safe claim, source and freshness register.
- Intended reader
- Second-line risk and compliance teams, Internal audit and assurance teams, Security leaders defining bounded action authority, Advisers and MSSPs requiring commercial-use rights
- Update status
- Base licences are one-time and perpetual. Optional 12-month updates are sold separately for organisational licences.
Decision question
What exact defensive action may a system take, on what object, under whose authority, with which consequence owner and recovery path?
Scope
Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability converts a general pressure to adopt defensive AI into a reviewable buyer decision. It defines the action, controlled object, authority ceiling, consequence ownership, recovery path, recorded outcome and reopen condition without selecting a supplier.
What is included
- Buyer-side decision method: a bounded record for the action, controlled object, authority ceiling, consequence owner, recovery path and reopen condition.
- Recorded outcomes: recognition, partial recognition, non-recognition, unresolved, STOP or a complete decision to take no action.
- Evidence controls: claims, source interest, freshness and the strongest formulation supported by the record remain visible.
- Explicit limits: Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability does not authorise a category-wide rollout or select a supplier.
Intended uses
Risk, compliance and internal-audit teams recording the conditions under which a bounded defensive action may proceed or be withheld.
Security leaders defining action authority, consequence ownership and recovery before supplier evaluation.
Advisers and MSSPs requiring commercial rights to use the method in paid client work.
Access and licensing
Named-reader licence
One named reader. The record may be used as a checklist for that reader's own work.
1,200 EUR
- Internal quotation with attribution
- No internal circulation or template adaptation
- Updates not included
Organisational licence
Perpetual internal-use licence for one legal entity.
4,000 EUR
- Unlimited internal circulation
- Adaptation of the nine-field record for internal standards
- No use in paid client deliverables
Named-reader to organisational upgrade
Upgrade from a named-reader licence to an organisational licence.
2,800 EUR
- Price held for 12 months after the named-reader purchase
12-month update service
Optional updates for an organisational licence, purchased separately from the perpetual base licence.
1,200 EUR
- Four quarterly updates
- Refreshes named source, regulatory-anchor and reopen-condition records
- Does not include consulting or report edits on request
Commercial-use licence
Series-level licence for advisers, MSSPs and other intermediaries. It includes both reports and updates for use in paid client deliverables.
From 15,000 EUR / year
Procurement facts
- The named-reader and organisational base licences are one-time purchases with perpetual rights at the selected scope.
- Updates are a separate optional purchase and are not included in the base licence.
- Delivery does not require access to the buyer's systems or data.
- Autonomous Defensive Action: How Buyers Decide Action Authority and Accountability and Defensive AI: a dated supply-side landscape are standalone products; there is no two-report bundle.