OWASP Agentic Top 10 / ASI09

ASI09: Misalignment

Agent optimises for proxy objective drifting away from intended goal.

Last reviewed June 2026

Problem

The gap ASI09 closes

Misalignment sits in the alignment surface, and OWASP Agentic Top 10 rates it high. Agent optimises for proxy objective drifting away from intended goal. For teams shipping LLM and agentic features, a control like this is only as good as the evidence that it was actually tested - an unverified control is a finding waiting for an auditor.

How Penaxtra approaches it

How Penaxtra delivers ASI09

Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target misalignment directly. Each probe runs against your live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges plus a meta-judge before it becomes a finding - so a ASI09 result is a tested verdict, not a guess. Every relevant finding is created with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI09 identifier already attached, so it lands in the audit-evidence pack mapped to the control rather than as a screenshot someone has to translate later. Where the same weakness touches another framework, the cross-framework overlap means one finding satisfies several control cells at once.

Technical capabilities

ASI09 capabilities

Probe and check coverage aligned to ASI09 (Misalignment)

Findings tagged with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI09 control identifier

Severity context (OWASP Agentic Top 10 rates this high)

Cross-framework overlap so one finding maps to several control cells

PDF and JSON audit-evidence export with the control id attached

Compliance mapping

ASI09 compliance mapping

Findings for ASI09 carry the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI09 identifier and cross-map to the related controls in the other five frameworks Penaxtra covers.

FAQ

Frequently asked

What is ASI09 (Misalignment)?

Agent optimises for proxy objective drifting away from intended goal. It is part of OWASP Agentic Top 10, rated high.

How does Penaxtra test for ASI09?

Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target misalignment directly. Each probe runs against your live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges plus a meta-judge before it becomes a finding - so a ASI09 result is a tested verdict, not a guess.

Does a finding for ASI09 help with an audit?

Yes. Each finding is tagged with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI09 control identifier and exported in the PDF and JSON evidence pack, so it maps straight onto the auditor control list instead of needing manual translation.

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