Cybersecurity definition
What is AI Security?
By Cyber Tool Stack Editorial TeamUpdated
Definition
The discipline of identifying, testing, governing, and reducing security risks in machine-learning models, generative-AI applications, and autonomous agents across their development and operating lifecycle.
Where AI Security fits in the security landscape
These beginner lessons use this term while explaining the surrounding security control.
Related cybersecurity terms
Prompt InjectionAn attack in which untrusted instructions supplied directly by a user or indirectly through retrieved content attempt to override an AI application's intended instructions, policy, or tool-use boundaries.AI Red TeamingStructured adversarial testing of an AI model or application to uncover exploitable behavior, policy failures, data leakage, unsafe outputs, and weaknesses in surrounding controls.Agentic AIAn AI system that can plan and take actions through tools, APIs, data sources, or other agents, creating security consequences beyond simply generating text or images.