Risk
Discovery of Outdated or Orphaned AI and Agentic Assets
Description
Identifying AI models, datasets, agents, agent identities, scheduled tasks, or tools that are no longer actively maintained, supported, or have clear ownership, posing unmonitored security, compliance, or operational risks.
Example
A scheduled agentic task created two years ago still runs nightly under an active service identity, but the team that built it has left and the agent's tool catalog includes deprecated MCP servers.
Assets Affected
Model Files
Dataset / RAG
Notebook
AI Platform
AI Agent
Agent Identity
Agentic Tasks / Schedule
Mitigation
- Establish clear ownership and lifecycle management for all AI and agentic assets from discovery
- implement processes for decommissioning or archiving orphaned assets
- regularly review asset inventory for outdated agents and stale identities.
Standards Mapping
- ISO: A.6.2.6, A.3.2
- OWASP agentic: ASI10
- DASF: Governance 4.2
- AIUC-1: E004, E015