Glossary
AI compliance and observability glossary
Plain-English definitions for the AI risk and observability terms used across Prism and Prism X. Defined entries link to dedicated pages; pointer entries link to the product or compliance page where the concept lives in context.
Shadow AI
DefinedShadow AI is the use of consumer AI tools — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot — by employees without IT approva…
AI Observability
DefinedAI observability is the practice of capturing every LLM call, scoring it for quality, and retaining the record…
LLM Observability
DefinedLLM observability is the model-layer subset of AI observability. It covers prompt-response capture, token and …
AI Red Teaming
DefinedAI red teaming is the practice of probing AI systems — particularly LLMs — for jailbreaks, prompt injection, p…
AI Guardrail
DefinedAn AI guardrail is a real-time policy layer that intercepts LLM inputs and outputs to detect, block, or redact…
Model Drift
DefinedModel drift is the silent decline of an AI model's quality, accuracy, or behavior over time. In LLMs and agent…
Prompt Injection
DefinedPrompt injection is a class of attack where adversarial input is crafted to redirect a large language model's …
Tool Calling
DefinedTool calling, sometimes called function calling, is the capability that lets a large language model invoke ext…
PII Redaction
DefinedPII redaction is the process of detecting personal identifying information in text and removing, masking, or r…
HIPAA Safe Harbor
DefinedHIPAA Safe Harbor is one of two methods the HIPAA Privacy Rule provides for de-identifying protected health in…
LLM-as-Judge
DefinedLLM-as-Judge is an evaluation technique where an independent large language model scores another LLM's output …
LLM trace
Defined on the Traces page.
Agent trajectory
Step-by-step record of an agent's decision.
PII redaction (LLM)
PII scrubbed before storage.
Prompt injection
What it is and how Prism blocks it.
Model audit
Pre-deployment risk assessment.
NIST AI RMF
Voluntary US framework, mapped to Prism.
EU AI Act high-risk system
Annex III scope, with Prism mapping.
SR 11-7
FRB / OCC model risk management.
ISO 42001 AIMS
AI management system standard.
Safe Harbor de-identification
HIPAA's 18 identifier categories.
Browser DLP for AI
What Prism X does at the browser.
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