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OWASP ASI Policy Mapping

Cross-references every rule in the ASI starter policy packs (examples/policy-templates/) to the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative (ASI) Top 10 risk it mitigates. Use this table during security audits.

Packs: healthcare · financial-services · general-saas · edu-k12

References: - OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (2026) - Arcanum-Sec: Prompt Injection Taxonomy - Arcanum-Sec: sec-context (Code Anti-Patterns)


Cross-Reference Table

Rule Name Pack(s) ASI Risk(s) AGT Component
asi01-prompt-injection-override All ASI-01 Agent OS — Policy Engine
asi01-prompt-injection-role-hijack All ASI-01 Agent OS — Policy Engine
asi01-prompt-injection-delimiter All ASI-01 Agent OS — MCP Proxy Sanitizer
healthcare-asi01-cbrn-guardrail healthcare ASI-01 Agent OS — Policy Engine
asi01-prompt-injection-jailbreak general-saas ASI-01 Agent OS — Policy Engine
asi01-integrity-shipping-guardrail All ASI-01, ASI-02 Business Continuity — Logistics Guard
asi01-integrity-fraud-guardrail All ASI-01, ASI-02 Business Continuity — Fraud Guard
asi01-nested-swarm-guardrail general-saas ASI-01 AgentMesh — Delegation Guard
asi02-block-shell-execution All ASI-02 Agent OS — Capability Sandboxing
asi02-block-network-exfiltration All ASI-02 Agent OS — Capability Sandboxing
asi02-block-file-deletion healthcare ASI-02 Agent OS — Capability Sandboxing
asi02-block-destructive-operations financial-services, general-saas ASI-02 Agent OS — Capability Sandboxing
financial-asi02-obfuscation-guardrail financial-services ASI-02 Agent OS — Binary Inspector
asi02-block-database-mutation general-saas ASI-02 Agent SRE — Audit Trail
asi03-block-privilege-escalation All ASI-03 AgentMesh — DID Identity & Trust
asi03-block-credential-access All ASI-03 AgentMesh — DID Identity & Trust
financial-asi03-identity-guardrail financial-services ASI-03 AgentMesh — Trust Boundary
asi03-block-user-impersonation general-saas ASI-03 AgentMesh — DID Identity & Trust
asi03-account-mfa-bypass All ASI-03 AgentMesh — Identity Governance
asi03-account-admin-promotion All ASI-03 AgentMesh — Identity Governance
asi03-account-password-reset All ASI-03 AgentMesh — Identity Governance
asi03-account-audit-tampering All ASI-03 AgentMesh — Identity Governance
asi04-supply-chain-tool-enumeration All ASI-04 Agent OS — Recon Guard
asi04-supply-chain-dependency-poisoning All ASI-04 Agent OS — Payload Guard
asi04-supply-chain-plugin-hijack All ASI-04 Agent OS — Registry Proxy
asi04-supply-chain-config-mutation All ASI-04 Agent OS — State Guard
asi05-block-code-execution All ASI-05 Agent Runtime — Execution Rings
asi05-block-dynamic-eval All ASI-05 Agent Runtime — Execution Rings
asi05-sandbox-anti-pattern-detection All ASI-05 Agent Runtime — Context Guard
asi05-block-ssh general-saas ASI-05 Agent Runtime — Execution Rings
asi06-context-budget-limit All ASI-06 Agent OS — VFS / ContextScheduler
asi06-block-context-manipulation All ASI-06 Agent OS — Context Integrity Firewall
asi07-hidden-channel-guardrail All ASI-07 AgentMesh — Signal Monitor
asi08-session-tool-call-limit All ASI-08 Agent SRE — Circuit Breakers
asi08-swarm-heat-guardrail All ASI-08 Agent SRE — Swarm Monitor
asi09-trust-payment-redirection All ASI-09 Business Continuity — Trust Firewall
asi09-trust-vip-impersonation All ASI-09 Business Continuity — Trust Firewall
asi09-trust-urgency-pretext All ASI-09 Business Continuity — Trust Firewall
asi09-trust-phishing-link All ASI-09 Business Continuity — Trust Firewall
asi10-charter-roleplay-block All ASI-10 Agent OS — Charter Enforcement
asi10-charter-purpose-override All ASI-10 Agent OS — Charter Enforcement
asi10-charter-autonomous-loop All ASI-10 Agent OS — Charter Enforcement
asi03-block-credentials-in-output All ASI-02, ASI-03 Agent OS — Policy Engine
asi06-block-pii-ssn All ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — PII Protection
healthcare-block-phi-mrn healthcare ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — PII Protection
healthcare-block-phi-dea healthcare ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — PII Protection
healthcare-enforce-deidentification healthcare ASI-02, ASI-06 Agent OS — Data Pipeline Security
financial-block-pii-credit-card financial-services ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — PII Protection
saas-block-pii-email-bulk general-saas ASI-02, ASI-06 Agent OS — PII Protection
edu-asi01-homework-bypass edu-k12 ASI-01 Agent OS — Policy Engine
edu-asi01-content-filter-bypass edu-k12 ASI-01 Agent OS — Policy Engine
edu-asi02-block-grade-mutation edu-k12 ASI-02 Agent OS — Capability Sandboxing
edu-asi02-block-record-write edu-k12 ASI-02 Agent OS — Capability Sandboxing
edu-asi03-block-student-impersonation edu-k12 ASI-03 AgentMesh — DID Identity & Trust
edu-asi06-block-curriculum-poisoning edu-k12 ASI-06 Agent OS — Context Integrity Firewall
edu-asi09-parental-impersonation edu-k12 ASI-09 Business Continuity — Trust Firewall
edu-asi09-block-minor-contact-info edu-k12 ASI-09 Agent OS — PII Protection
edu-block-student-id edu-k12 ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — PII Protection
edu-block-phi-iep edu-k12 ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — PII Protection
edu-block-disciplinary-record edu-k12 ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — PII Protection
edu-cipa-block-adult-content edu-k12 ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — Policy Engine
edu-cipa-block-violence-content edu-k12 ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — Policy Engine
edu-block-credentials-in-output edu-k12 ASI-02, ASI-03 Agent OS — Policy Engine
edu-ferpa-audit-record-access edu-k12 ASI-01, ASI-06 Agent OS — Audit Trail

ASI Risk Coverage Matrix

ASI Risk healthcare financial-services general-saas edu-k12
ASI-01 Agent Goal Hijack
ASI-02 Tool Misuse & Exploitation
ASI-03 Identity & Privilege Abuse
ASI-04 Agentic Supply Chain 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗
ASI-05 Unexpected Code Execution
ASI-06 Memory & Context Poisoning
ASI-07 Insecure Inter-Agent Communication 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗
ASI-08 Cascading Agent Failures
ASI-09 Human-Agent Trust Exploitation 🔗 🔗 🔗
ASI-10 Rogue Agents 🔗 🔗 🔗 🔗

Legend: - ✅ Direct policy rule(s) in this starter pack mitigate this risk - 🔗 Covered by the AGT runtime stack — see OWASP ASI coverage

ASI-04, ASI-07, ASI-09, and ASI-10 are primarily mitigated at the infrastructure layer (AgentMesh IATP, approval workflows, execution ring isolation). Policy-level controls for those risks require runtime context fields not universally available. These are tracked for future starter pack versions.

edu-k12 exception: ASI-09 has direct policy-level rules in this pack (edu-asi09-parental-impersonation, edu-asi09-block-minor-contact-info) because the elevated duty of care owed to minors warrants inline guardrails even without full runtime context.


Default Posture by Pack

Pack Default Action Max Tokens Max Tool Calls Confidence
healthcare deny 8,192 15 0.95
financial-services deny 6,000 20 0.95
general-saas deny 12,000 30 0.85
edu-k12 deny 4,096 10 0.90

All packs implement deny-all by default, enforcing the Least Agency principle.


Regulatory Alignment

Regulation Pack Controls Applied
HIPAA §164.514 (PHI De-identification) healthcare SSN, MRN, DEA, NPI blocking
HIPAA §164.530 (Minimum Necessary) healthcare Deny-all default, read-only allowlist
PCI DSS Req 3 (Protect Account Data) financial-services PAN/SSN blocking in output
PCI DSS Req 6 (Secure Systems) financial-services Shell/code execution deny
SOX §302/906 (Financial Reporting) financial-services Transaction action audit trail
AML / BSA (Structuring Detection) financial-services Bulk transaction blocking
GDPR / CCPA (PII Minimization) general-saas SSN, bulk email blocking
FERPA 20 U.S.C. § 1232g (Education Records) edu-k12 Student ID, IEP, disciplinary record blocking; read-access audit logging
COPPA 15 U.S.C. § 6501 (Children's Privacy) edu-k12 Minor contact info blocking, parental consent audit, SSN/PII deny
CIPA 47 U.S.C. § 254(h) (Internet Content) edu-k12 Adult content blocking, violence/harmful content blocking
PPRA 20 U.S.C. § 1232h (Pupil Rights) edu-k12 Academic integrity guardrail, homework-bypass deny

Prior Art & Acknowledgments

These packs extend existing patterns from this repository:

  • examples/policies/production/healthcare.yaml — PHI detection patterns
  • examples/policies/production/financial.yaml — PCI/SOX patterns
  • examples/policies/production/enterprise.yaml — general enterprise deny rules
  • examples/policies/prompt-injection-safety.yaml — ASI-01 injection detection
  • Arcanum-Sec Intelligence: Rules prefixed with (Arcanum-Sec) leverage the Arcanum-Sec Prompt Injection Taxonomy or sec-context anti-pattern library for high-fidelity detection.

OWASP reference: OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (2026)


Last updated: June 2026

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