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What Is MITRE ATLAS?

MITRE ATLAS is a knowledge base of adversarial tactics, techniques, and real-world case studies against AI-enabled systems, modelled on the widely used MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Definition

MITRE ATLASa knowledge base of adversarial tactics, techniques, and real-world case studies against AI-enabled systems, modelled on the widely used MITRE ATT&CK framework.

ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems) catalogues how attackers target machine-learning systems — from data poisoning and model evasion to model extraction and prompt injection — and maps mitigations. Security teams use it to threat-model AI systems and to give a common vocabulary to AI red-teaming, complementing the NIST AI RMF and the OWASP LLM Top 10.

Source: MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems)

Plain-language explanation

ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems) catalogues how attackers target machine-learning systems — from data poisoning and model evasion to model extraction and prompt injection — and maps mitigations. Security teams use it to threat-model AI systems and to give a common vocabulary to AI red-teaming, complementing the NIST AI RMF and the OWASP LLM Top 10.

Primary source: MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems)

Related terms

OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications AI Red Teaming Data Poisoning Model Extraction

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