Structural fix
A remediation that changes the underlying design choice that allowed a finding to occur (for example, moving from onboarding-only trust to continuous re-verification), protecting against future instances of the same weakness, not just the specific instance already found.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
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 remediation that changes the underlying design choice that allowed a finding to occur (for example, moving from onboarding-only trust to continuous re-verification), protecting against future instances of the same weakness, not just the specific instance already found.
A Phase 2 remediation that addresses the shared root cause behind a recurring pattern of individual gap-register findings, as distinguished from a symptom fix that resolves only the specific instance discovered so far.
A remediation that closes an entire category of future exposure at once, changing a resolution mechanism or an intake process, rather than a fix that closes only the single specific instance a red team happened to find.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Your lineage map under attack: the red team finds the gap you papered over · Adversarial Data Governance, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- Governance that survives: rebuilding the estate's defenses so the next attack finds less · Adversarial Data Governance, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.