DASF-R-6.1 — Evaluation data poisoning

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 27. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Risk mechanism

Upstream attacks against data, where the data is tampered with before it is used for machine learning, significantly complicate the training and evaluation of ML models. Poisoning of the evaluation data impacts the model validation and testing process. These attacks can corrupt or alter the data in a way that skews the training process, leading to unreliable models.

Applicability

Predictive ML Models · Fine-tuned LLMs · Pre-trained LLMs

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Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Unreliable Model Training Processes and Outcomes • Loss of AI System Integrity • Failure to Achieve Organizational AI Strategy and Goals

Business:

• Financial Loss • Response Costs • Model Retraining Costs

Controls

• DASF-1 — SSO with IdP and MFA
• DASF-2 — Sync users and groups
• DASF-3 — Restrict access using IP access lists
• DASF-4 — Restrict access using private link
• DASF-5 — Control access to data and other objects
• DASF-7 — Enforce data quality checks on batch and streaming datasets
• DASF-11 — Capture and view data lineage
• DASF-42 — Employ data-centric MLOps and LLMOps
• DASF-44 — Triggering actions in response to a specific event
• DASF-45 — Evaluate models
• DASF-49 — Automate LLM evaluation
• DASF-67 — Federate authentication

Source control guidance

• DASF 1: SSO with IdP and MFA to limit who can access your data and AI platform • DASF 2: Sync users and groups to inherit your organizational roles to access data • DASF 3: Restrict access using IP access lists to restrict the IP addresses that can authenticate to your data and AI platform • DASF 4: Restrict access using private link as strong controls that limit the source for inbound requests • DASF 5: Control access to data and other objects for permissions model across all data assets to protect data and sources • DASF 7: Enforce data quality checks on batch and streaming datasets for data sanity checks, and automatically detect anomalies before they make it to the datasets • DASF 11: Capture and view data lineage to capture the lineage all the way to the original raw data sources • DASF 42: Data-centric MLOps and LLMOps unit and integration testing • DASF 44: Trigger actions in response to a specific event via automated jobs to notify human-in-the-loop (HITL) • DASF 45: Evaluate models to capture performance insights for language models • DASF 49: Automate LLM evaluation • DASF 67: Federate authentication

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-6.1. 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

These are the mappings in this snapshot, with their original edition labels. They are references, not proof of conformity or independent validation.

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