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- Ranjan Uncle's Backup Diary (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 9)
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Related terms
- Agentic AI An AI system that can take real actions, not just generate text responses.
- AI supply chain attack Tampering with a model, dataset or code library before people download and use it.
- Alert fatigue The tendency to ignore warnings after being shown too many false or low-value ones.
- Attack surface Everything about a system that could possibly be attacked or misused.
- Audit A careful check of habits or systems against what's actually recommended.
- Authentication Confirming who someone is, usually via a password and sometimes a second factor.