DASF-69 — Securely host Custom MCP Servers
Source: official compendium, Databricks AI Mitigation Controls, row 71. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 3.0.
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Intent and implementation
Host your own custom or third-party MCP servers as secure Databricks apps. Custom MCP servers are useful if you already have an MCP server you want to deploy or if you want to run a third-party MCP server as a source of tools.
Source metadata
- Category: Platform and System Security
- System component: Agentic AI
- Databricks responsibility: Databricks — Implementation
- Product reference: Customer configured, Databricks enforced
- Feature/control: Feature
- Security Analysis Tool reference: Out of the box
- Novelty: Novel AI Control/Capability
Databricks responsibility labels do not establish who enforces this control on another platform. Name a local owner and verify it.
Implementation references
Risks linked by the risk table
- DASF-R-13.18
- DASF-R-13.19
- DASF-R-13.20
- DASF-R-13.21
- DASF-R-13.22
- DASF-R-13.23
- DASF-R-13.24
- DASF-R-13.25
- DASF-R-13.26
- DASF-R-13.27
- DASF-R-13.28
- DASF-R-13.29
- DASF-R-13.31
- DASF-R-13.32
- DASF-R-13.33
- DASF-R-13.34
- DASF-R-13.35
The control table separately reports: DASF-R-13.18, DASF-R-13.19, DASF-R-13.20, DASF-R-13.21, DASF-R-13.22, DASF-R-13.23, DASF-R-13.24, DASF-R-13.25, DASF-R-13.26, DASF-R-13.27, DASF-R-13.28, DASF-R-13.29, DASF-R-13.31, DASF-R-13.32, DASF-R-13.33, DASF-R-13.34, DASF-R-13.35. See source issues for differences.
Verification
Project adaptation: get_control returns a concrete evidence request, a proposed test, and an acceptance condition. A control description or product feature is not evidence of deployment or effectiveness.
Source-reported framework mappings
These are the mappings in this snapshot, with their original edition labels. They are references, not proof of conformity or independent validation.
| Framework | Source mapping |
|---|---|
| MITRE ATLAS as of Q3 2024 | AML.M0005 Control Access to ML Models and Data at Rest<br> AML.M0016 Vulnerability Scanning |
| MITRE ATTACK as of Q3 2024 | M1051 Update Software<br> M1054 Software Configuration<br> M1026 Privileged Account Management |
| OWASP LLM Top 10 2025 | LLM08: Excessive Agency <br>LLM03: Supply Chain |
| OWASP ML Top 10 v0.3 | no mapping |
| ISO 42001:2023 Controls Objectives and Controls (Annex A) | no mapping |
| ISO 27001:2022 Information Security Control Reference (Annex A) | A.8.8 Management of technical vulnerabilities<br>A.8.9 Configuration management<br>A.8.25 Secure development lifecycle |
| NIST - 800- 53 - Rev 5 | CM-6:Configuration Settings<br>CM-7:Least Functionality<br>SA-8:Security and Privacy Engineering Principles<br>SI-2:Flaw Remediation |
| HITRUST Security for AI Systems | AI system configuration → Apply hardened minimal configurations for self-hosted MCP server infrastructure |
| ENISA’s Securing ML Algorithms | Apply security hardening to self-hosted AI tool servers / Implement secure software development lifecycle for custom AI integrations |
| EU AI ACT | Article 9 Risk management system<br>Article 15 Accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity |
| NIST CSF 2.0 | PR.PS-01<br>PR.PS-02<br>PR.PS-06<br>GV.SC-07<br>ID.RA-01 |
| AIUC-1 | no mapping |