DASF-R-9.6 — Discover ML model ontology

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 43. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Risk mechanism

Adversaries may aim to uncover the ontology of a machine learning model’s output space, such as identifying the range of objects or responses the model is designed to detect. This can be achieved through repeated queries to the model, which may force it to reveal its classification system or by accessing its configuration files or documentation. Understanding a model’s ontology allows adversaries to gain insights in designing targeted attacks that exploit specific vulnerabilities or characteristics.

Applicability

Predictive ML Models

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Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Subsequence Compromise of AI Systems • Regulatory Non-compliance • Failure to Achieve Organizational AI Strategy and Goals

Business:

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

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-24 — Control access to models and model assets
• DASF-28 — Create model aliases, tags and annotations
• DASF-46 — Store and retrieve embeddings securely
• DASF-30 — Encrypt models
• DASF-31 — Secure model serving endpoints
• DASF-32 — Govern and monitor access of AI model and model serving endpoints
• DASF-37 — Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging models
• DASF-45 — Evaluate models
• DASF-54 — Implement AI guardrails
• DASF-60 — Rate limit number of inference queries
• 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 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 24: Control access to models and model assets • DASF 28: Create model aliases, tags and annotations • DASF 46: Store and retrieve embeddings securely to integrate data objects for security-sensitive data that goes into LLMs as RAG inputs • DASF 30: Encrypt models • DASF 31: Secure model serving endpoints • DASF 32: Streamline the usage and management of various large language model (LLM) providers and rate-limit inference queries allowed by the model. Designing robust prompts can help mitigate attacks such as jailbreaking. Implement gates between users/callers and the actual model by performing input validation post-processing on all proposed queries, rejecting anything not meeting the model’s definition of input correctness, and returning only the minimum amount of information needed to be useful. Open source and commercial solutions provide a variety of modules including prompt and output scanners for various responsible AI or jailbreaking attacks.

• DASF 37: Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging models • DASF 45: Evaluate models for custom evaluation metrics • DASF 54: Implement AI guardrails

• DASF 60: Rate limit number of inference queries to control capacity and ensure availability of the model serving • DASF 67: Federate authentication

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-9.6. 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 9
• Catalog