SAIL 2.0

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Monitor: AI Activity Tracing & Telemetry

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Untracked Agent Decommissioning

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Untracked Agent Decommissioning

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Risk

Untracked Agent Decommissioning

Description

Agents reach end-of-life without identity revocation, scoped credentials still active, scheduled tasks still running, and memory/RAG stores still accessible โ€” leaving residual attack surface.

Example

A pilot agent is deprecated but its workload identity, MCP server connections, and scheduled nightly task remain active for months.

Assets Affected

AI Agent

Agent Identity

AI Provider Access Credentials

Agentic Tasks / Schedule

Agent Memory / Cache

Mitigation
  • Define agent decommissioning procedure
  • revoke identities and credentials at end-of-life
  • archive logs and memory stores per retention policy
  • shut down scheduled tasks
  • remove MCP server access
  • close lifecycle loop.
Standards Mapping
  • ISO: A.6.2.6, A.4.6
  • OWASP agentic: ASI10
  • DASF: Governance 4.2, Agents-Core 13.13
  • AIUC-1: E004, E015