Control crosswalk · Verified August 12, 2026

OWASP agentic AI risks mapped to operating controls

Map OWASP agentic AI risks to platform controls, deployment-specific safeguards, customer responsibilities, test cases, and retained evidence.

How BlueBear handles the work

Goal hijacking and tool misuse

Constrain agents with workflow definitions, assigned MCP capabilities, action policy, approval gates, budgets, and denial tests. Prompt filtering alone is not the boundary.

Evidence: Platform control: tool/action scope and policy result · Customer-owned: approved workflow and risk tier

Identity and privilege abuse

Carry authenticated actor, tenant, workspace, agent, credential, and resource context into authorization. Avoid token passthrough and implicit authority from prompt content.

Evidence: Platform control: scoped execution context · Deployment-specific: IdP, MFA, token lifetime, and key ownership

Supply chain and unexpected code execution

Inventory servers, tools, versions, packages, artifacts, and runtime permissions. Restrict execution environments and require review for new or changed capabilities.

Evidence: Shared responsibility: platform assignment and logs; customer approval, scanning, network, and runtime policy

Incident response and accountability

Correlate plans, policy decisions, model routes, tool calls, approvals, retries, failures, costs, and outcomes so responders can contain and reconstruct an incident.

Evidence: Platform control where enabled: session evidence · Customer-owned: retention, response plan, and accountable owners

From request to inspectable outcome

  1. Select a risk

    Name the agent behavior, affected asset, impact, owner, and acceptable boundary.

  2. Assign responsibility

    Mark each safeguard as platform, deployment-specific, customer-owned, or documentary assurance.

  3. Test the control

    Run normal, denied, manipulated, failure, approval, and recovery cases.

  4. Retain evidence

    Record results, gaps, compensating controls, owner, deadline, and retest date.

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