Mitigation
A specific, implementable design change intended to prevent a failure mode outright, detect it and contain its effect, or allow the system to degrade gracefully through it. A mitigation is distinct from simply documenting a risk; it requires an actual change to the system's design or behavior.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A specific, implementable design change intended to prevent a failure mode outright, detect it and contain its effect, or allow the system to degrade gracefully through it. A mitigation is distinct from simply documenting a risk; it requires an actual change to the system's design or behavior.
The specific control that closes or reduces a given attack path, plus the residual risk that remains after it is applied.
A change that reduces the likelihood or severity of a failure without fully closing the underlying gap that allows it, distinguished from a full corrective action by failing the second half of the counterfactual test.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- Dossier Workshop E, Control Architecture and Threat Model · Technical Controls and Threat Modeling, Certified Agentic AI Governance Professional (CAAGP)
- Failure-first design: assuming it breaks and planning for it · Engineering Thinking and Elegant Minimalism, Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation
- Root cause analysis that finds the real cause · Failure Analysis, Learning From How Robots Break, Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.