DASF-R-9.7 — Denial of Service (DoS)

Source: official compendium, AI Lifecycle Risks, row 44. Snapshot: 2026-10-22; source revision: DASF v 1.0.

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Risk mechanism

Adversaries may target machine learning systems with a flood of requests to degrade or shut down the service. Since many machine learning systems require significant amounts of specialized compute, they are often expensive bottlenecks that can become overloaded. Adversaries can intentionally craft inputs that require heavy amounts of useless compute from the machine learning system.

Applicability

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

Blank source cells remain null (unspecified); a source “No” means this default filter omits the risk; it does not establish absence in your architecture. Combine every deployment pattern in the system.

Impacts described by the source

AI system:

• Loss of AI System Availability • Disruption of Business Operations and Service Availability

Business:

• Financial Loss • Breach of Service Level Agreement • Direct Business Interruption • Customer Retention

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-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-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 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. • DASF 37: Set up inference tables for monitoring and debugging model prompts • DASF 60: Rate limit number of inference queries • DASF 67: Federate authentication

Additional controls to consider: Please see the companion compendium document for a collection of third-party tools.

Investigate and verify

Project adaptation: use the evidence workflow, then request investigate_risk with DASF-R-9.7. 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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