Revocation
The withdrawal of a granted capability when the task it was granted for ends. A just-in-time grant that is never revoked silently becomes a standing permission, so revocation must be automatic (on completion or a short timeout) rather than depending on someone remembering.
Defined in 4 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP).
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The withdrawal of a granted capability when the task it was granted for ends. A just-in-time grant that is never revoked silently becomes a standing permission, so revocation must be automatic (on completion or a short timeout) rather than depending on someone remembering.
The act of cutting an agent's access entirely, typically by refusing to reissue a new short-lived token to that agent's identity, independent of and faster than any single-action checkpoint.
The act of a competent principal canceling a power of attorney, which can be done at any time, for any reason, in writing, without needing the agent's agreement or a court's involvement.
Closing every access path a supplier holds into your systems, premises and identities. The forgotten half of destruction.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- The Enterprise Control Plane · Rollout, Monitoring, and Incident Response, Certified Agentic AI Governance Professional (CAAGP)
- Permissioning an agent: tools, budgets, and the actions it may never take alone · Agents Under Command, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- Exit, portability, and vendor resilience · Third-Party, Supply-Chain, and Concentration Risk, Certified Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional (CEGP)
- Power of attorney: what it gives away and what it does not · The Trusted Person, Senior AI Scam Defense
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where Revocation starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Governs AI agents that take actions: tool access, least privilege, interruptibility, cascading actions and accountability for what an agent did.
2 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Plans for a vendor failure, an unsafe model change or a suspended service: rollback, manual fallback, data export and safe decommissioning.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Tiers vendors by use and impact, requests evidence instead of promises, tests in the customer's context, and plans monitoring and exit.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- Chief Information Security Officer, AI security focusneeds it at depth
- AI Security Architectneeds it at depth · 8 open postings this week
- AI Vendor Risk Managerneeds it at depth
- Third-Party Cyber Risk Managerneeds it at depth
- Chief Risk Officer, AI risk editionneeds working knowledge
- Chief Technology Officer, AI engineering editionneeds working knowledge
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: IMDA Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI; NIST AI RMF; DORA; NIS2.
One interview question about it
An agent can send emails and update records. What may it touch, what needs a human, and how do you prove afterwards what it did?
Asked of candidates for agentic ai controls and authorization boundaries. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Cybersecurity and IT carries it as a claim to back up: Continuity and recovery planning are part of the job.
- Privacy and data protection carries it as a claim to back up: Processor and vendor review is routine privacy work.
- Nonprofit program and grants oversight carries it as a claim to back up: Reviewing grant and vendor agreements for data terms is vendor review.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.