OWASP (Open Worldwide Application Security Project)
A nonprofit organization that publishes widely referenced application security standards, including the Top 10 for LLM Applications, which ranks the most critical risk categories for AI systems including prompt injection (LLM01).
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP).
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 nonprofit organization that publishes widely referenced application security standards, including the Top 10 for LLM Applications, which ranks the most critical risk categories for AI systems including prompt injection (LLM01).
The organization whose Agentic Security Initiative authored the fifteen-threat taxonomy this and Topic 5.4 teach. The CSA Addendum adopts and reproduces this taxonomy; it is never CSA's own original research.
The nonprofit organization, best known for the OWASP Top 10 web-application risks, whose Agentic Security Initiative working group developed the fifteen-threat taxonomy CSA reproduces in Annex A.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- The OWASP Threat Map I: Eight Ways an Agent Turns Against You · Technical Controls and Threat Modeling, Certified Agentic AI Governance Professional (CAAGP)
- The OWASP Threat Map II · Technical Controls and Threat Modeling, Certified Agentic AI Governance Professional (CAAGP)
- The injectable corpus: documents that attack the AI that reads them · Poison, Leaks, and the Adversary, Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP)
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where OWASP (Open Worldwide Application Security Project) starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Understands prompt injection, data poisoning, model theft, insecure integrations and excessive agent privileges, and the controls that reduce each.
3 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Finds unapproved AI use, sets which tools are approved and what may be pasted, and detects leakage without policing every keystroke.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- Cybersecurity Risk Analystneeds working knowledge
- Chief Information Security Officer, AI security focusneeds it at depth
- Chief Technology Officer, AI engineering editionneeds it at depth
- AI Incident Response Leadneeds it at depth · 1 open posting this week
- AI Security Architectneeds it at depth · 8 open postings this week
- AI Governance Engineerneeds it at depth · 7 open postings this week
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications; Google SAIF; NIST AI RMF MEASURE 2; ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A.
One interview question about it
What are the security failure modes specific to AI systems, and which conventional control covers none of them?
Asked of candidates for ai security fundamentals. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Cybersecurity and IT carries it as a claim to back up: Threat modeling and control design transfer; the AI-specific threats are new.
- A computer science or software engineering degree carries it as a claim to back up: Security fundamentals are a course you took, not yet a control you ran.
- A cybersecurity or information assurance degree carries it as work you can show: Security fundamentals are your coursework and your labs.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.