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For many businesses, incident response planning is viewed as something that happens after a cyberattack. For payment service providers (PSPs), however, regulators increasingly expect incident response to be a documented, tested, and continuously maintained part of normal business operations. Under Canada's Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA), operational resilience isn't simply about preventing incidents-it's also about demonstrating that your organization knows how to respond when one occurs.

Somewhere in the past two years, AI quietly became an operations problem. The proof of concept your product team shipped - a support-ticket summarizer, a natural-language search box, a code-review assistant - graduated into a production dependency, and now it pages you. The failure modes are unfamiliar: latency distributions with tails measured in tens of seconds, upstream providers that throttle without warning, costs that scale with user enthusiasm rather than infrastructure size, and outputs that can be wrong in ways a health check will never catch.

Ask most DevOps teams where testing lives in their pipeline and you'll get a confident answer: "It's automated, it runs on every commit." That's true, and it's also only half the story. Automated checks in CI cover a slice of quality - usually unit and integration tests - but the wider discipline of *test management* often sits outside the pipeline entirely, scattered across spreadsheets, wikis, and someone's memory.

A trapeze artist does not perform the difficult part of the act without a net strung underneath. The net does not make the trick any easier. It makes attempting it survivable, which is the only reason anyone dares to let go of the bar. Jasiri Limited thinks about regression testing in much the same way. In a fast sprint, the temptation is to move quickly and assume nothing already working will break. The testing is the net that makes moving quickly survivable, and the company builds its approach by starting from the outcome and working backward.

Payment devices, from PIN pads to unattended payment terminals come under the PCI PIN Transaction Security (PTS) standard. This is a demanding standard that requires every encrypting PIN pad, POS terminal, and hardware security module that touches a cardholder's PIN has to pass evaluation by a PCI Recognized Laboratory before it can go to market. That evaluation reviews schematics and firmware architecture, audits PIN-handling code for buffer overflows and hardcoded keys,