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AI Glossary

Explore key terms, concepts, and technologies across artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and AI agents — defined in plain language for business and technical teams.

  • 48 terms
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Adversarial Example

Machine Learning

Definition
An adversarial example is an input that has been deliberately altered, often in ways a person cannot notice, so that a machine learning model gets it wrong, frequently with high confidence.
AI Security

Adversarial Machine Learning

Machine Learning

Definition
Adversarial machine learning is the study of attacks that manipulate machine learning systems through their training data, inputs, or outputs, and of the defenses that make those systems harder to fool, corrupt,…
AI Security

AI Audit Log

AI Agents

Definition
An AI audit log is a tamper-resistant record of every action an AI system took, including prompts, model responses, tool calls, data accessed, and human approvals, kept so the activity can be…
AI GovernanceAI Security

AI Gateway

Large Language Models

Definition
An AI gateway is a proxy that sits between applications and model endpoints to enforce authentication, routing, rate limits, logging, and data policies for every request to an AI model.
AI InfrastructureAI Security

AI Incident

AI Governance

Definition
An AI incident is an event in which an AI system's use or malfunction causes harm, such as an unfair decision about a person, a leak of confidential data, or an unauthorized…
AI Security

AI Red Teaming

Generative AI

Definition
AI red teaming is the structured practice of attacking an AI system before and after deployment to find the prompts, inputs, and workflows that make it fail, leak data, or cause harm.
AI Security

AI Security

AI Security

Definition
AI security is the practice of protecting AI systems, including models, data, prompts, and agents, from attack and misuse, and of preventing a manipulated AI system from harming the business that runs…
AI GovernanceAI Infrastructure

Air-Gapped AI Deployment

AI Infrastructure

Definition
An air-gapped AI deployment runs models on a network with no connection to the internet or to other networks, so data cannot leave and updates arrive only through controlled physical transfer.
AI Security

Confidential Computing

AI Security

Definition
Confidential computing protects data while it is being processed by running workloads in hardware-isolated, encrypted memory that the host operating system, the cloud operator, and other tenants cannot read.
AI Infrastructure

Data Classification

Data Management

Definition
Data classification is the process of labeling data by sensitivity, such as public, internal, confidential, or restricted, so that handling rules and access controls can be applied consistently.
AI Security

Data Exfiltration

AI Security

Definition
Data exfiltration is the unauthorized transfer of data out of an organization, whether by an outside attacker, a malicious insider, or an AI agent manipulated into sending information to an external destination.
AI Agents

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Data Management

Definition
Data loss prevention (DLP) is a set of tools and policies that detect sensitive data in motion or at rest and block or flag attempts to move it outside approved boundaries.
AI Security

Data Poisoning

Generative AI

Definition
Data poisoning is an attack that corrupts the data an AI system learns from or retrieves, so that the model later gives wrong answers, hides a backdoor, or favors the attacker.
AI Security

Data Residency

Data Management

Definition
Data residency is the requirement that specific data be stored and processed within a defined geographic location, usually to satisfy a law, regulation, or customer contract.
AI Security

Data Sovereignty

Data Management

Definition
Data sovereignty is the principle that data is subject to the laws and governance of the country where it is collected or stored, and the practice of keeping control of it accordingly.
AI GovernanceAI Security

Deepfake

Generative AI

Definition
A deepfake is synthetic audio, video, or imagery generated by AI to depict a real person saying or doing something they never did, usually convincingly enough to deceive a viewer.
AI GovernanceAI Security

Differential Privacy

Machine Learning

Definition
Differential privacy is a mathematical guarantee that a statistic or model changes almost imperceptibly whether or not any one person's record is included, which bounds what anyone can learn about that person…
AI Security

DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act)

AI Governance

Definition
DORA, the Digital Operational Resilience Act, is the EU regulation that requires financial entities to manage ICT risk, report incidents, test resilience, and control the third-party technology providers they depend on, including…
AI Security

DPIA and FRIA

AI Governance

Definition
A DPIA is the GDPR's data protection impact assessment for high-risk processing of personal data, and a FRIA is the EU AI Act's fundamental rights impact assessment that certain deployers of high-risk…
AI Security

Encryption at Rest and in Transit

AI Security

Definition
Encryption at rest protects stored data such as databases, files, and backups, and encryption in transit protects data moving across networks, so stolen disks or intercepted traffic cannot be read without the…