DASF-R-11.1 — Lack of MLOps — repeatable enforced standards

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 57. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Risk mechanism

Operationalizing an ML solution requires joining data from predictions, monitoring and feature tables with other relevant data. Duplicating data, moving AI assets, and driving governance and tracking across these stages may represent roadblocks to practitioners who would rather shortcut security controls to deliver their solution. Many organizations will find that the simplest way to securely combine ML solutions, input data and feature tables is to leverage the same platform that manages other production data. An ML solution comprises data, code and models. These assets must be developed, tested (staging) and deployed (production). For each of these stages, we also need to operate within an execution environment. Security is an essential component of all MLOps lifecycle stages. It ensures the complete lifecycle meets the required standards by keeping the distinct execution environments — development, staging and production.

Applicability

Predictive ML Models · RAG - LLMs · Fine-tuned LLMs · Pre-trained LLMs · Foundational LLMs · External Models

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Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Cyber Security Incident • Loss of AI System Integrity • Poor Performance and Reliability of Predictions • Erosion of Customer Trust • Reduced Organisation Trust in Model Effectiveness and Performance • Regulatory Non-compliance • Failure to Achieve Organizational AI Strategy and Goals

Business:

• Financial Loss • Response Costs • Customer Retention • Regulatory Fines and Judgement

Controls

• DASF-42 — Employ data-centric MLOps and LLMOps
• DASF-45 — Evaluate models
• DASF-44 — Triggering actions in response to a specific event

Source control guidance

• DASF 42: Data-centric MLOps and LLMOps. MLOps best practices: separate environments by workspace and schema, promote models with code, MLOps Stacks for repeatable ML infra across environments • DASF 45: Evaluate models to capture performance insights for language models • DASF 44: Trigger actions in response to a specific event to trigger automated jobs to keep human-in-the-loop (HITL)

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-11.1. It returns the mechanism above, control-specific evidence requests, proposed tests and remediation acceptance criteria. Until evidence is supplied, the result is unverified. Use the finding template to record a concrete observation and residual risk.

Source-reported framework mappings

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Related

• Component 11
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