Reference

Glossary

Every acronym, regulation, role, and platform term used across Scout. Acronyms in other pages link here - hover for a quick definition, click to open the full entry.

79 of 79 terms

Sales

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AUM

Assets Under Management

Sales

Total market value of assets a firm manages on behalf of clients - the primary sizing metric for wealth management firms.

BDR

Business Development Representative

Sales

Outbound prospecting role similar to an SDR, often focused on net-new logos and strategic accounts.

Also: BDM

ICP

Ideal Customer Profile

Sales

The firmographic and behavioral profile of accounts most likely to buy. For Tumeryk: regulated mid-market and enterprise firms deploying Copilot or seeing Shadow AI growth.

M&A

Mergers and Acquisitions

Sales

Corporate transactions that frequently trigger AI governance scrutiny because two stacks - and two sets of unsanctioned AI tools - have to merge.

MRR

Monthly Recurring Revenue

Sales

Predictable monthly subscription revenue - the metric MSP and MSSP partners care about when adding Workforce AI Security to their stack.

MSP

Managed Service Provider

Sales

Partner that operates IT and software services on behalf of clients. Many MSPs are adding AI governance as a managed service.

MSSP

Managed Security Service Provider

Sales

Partner that operates security tooling - SIEM, EDR, DLP - on behalf of clients. Workforce AI Security is the next managed security SKU.

PoV

Proof of Value

Sales

A short, scoped deployment - usually 14 to 30 days - that proves measurable Shadow AI discovery and risk reduction before a paid contract.

ROI

Return on Investment

Sales

Quantified business return from a purchase. With Tumeryk, ROI is framed as avoided regulatory penalties, reduced incident response cost, and faster Copilot rollout.

SDR

Sales Development Representative

Sales

Outbound rep responsible for qualifying prospects and booking discovery meetings for Account Executives.

SDR note. You are the SDR. Your goal on every Scout page is to get to a 15-minute discovery meeting.

Role

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CCO

Chief Compliance Officer

Role

Executive accountable for regulatory compliance and examiner readiness. Cares about audit evidence, documented controls, and policy enforcement.

CIO

Chief Information Officer

Role

Executive owning IT strategy and rollouts including Microsoft Copilot. Wants Tumeryk to unblock - not slow down - AI adoption.

CISO

Chief Information Security Officer

Role

Executive accountable for cybersecurity strategy, controls, and incident response. Primary buyer for Workforce AI Security.

CRO

Chief Risk Officer

Role

Executive responsible for the enterprise risk register, including AI risk scoring and quantification.

CUO

Chief Underwriting Officer

Role

Insurance executive accountable for underwriting decisions - now including AI-assisted underwriting under NAIC Model Bulletin 2023-1.

DPO

Data Protection Officer

Role

Privacy executive required under GDPR for many organizations. Owns DPIAs for new processing including employee LLM use.

Also: Chief Privacy Officer

RIA

Registered Investment Adviser

Role

Firm or individual registered with the SEC or a state to provide investment advice.

Regulator

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ABA

American Bar Association

Regulator

Professional association issuing model rules and formal opinions adopted by most state bars.

ASIC

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Regulator

Australia's corporate, markets, and financial-services regulator.

CFPB

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Regulator

Federal regulator for consumer financial products. Has issued guidance on AI-driven decisioning and fair lending.

DOI

Department of Insurance

Regulator

State-level insurance regulator. Many states have adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on AI.

FDA

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Regulator

Federal regulator for drugs, biologics, and medical devices - including AI/ML-enabled medical devices.

FDIC

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Regulator

U.S. banking regulator and deposit insurer. Has joined OCC and Federal Reserve on AI risk guidance.

FINRA

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

Regulator

Self-regulatory organization overseeing broker-dealers in the U.S. Issues rules on supervision (3110) and books and records (4511) that apply to AI-assisted client communications.

ICO

UK Information Commissioner's Office

Regulator

UK data protection regulator - has issued specific guidance on generative AI.

MAS

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Regulator

Singapore's integrated financial regulator and central bank. Issued FEAT principles for AI in finance.

NAIC

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

Regulator

Coordinating body for U.S. state insurance regulators. Model Bulletin 2023-1 requires governance of AI in underwriting and claims.

NYDFS

New York Department of Financial Services

Regulator

State regulator with broad authority; NYDFS Part 500 cybersecurity regulation now extends to AI-related risks.

OCC

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Regulator

Primary federal regulator for national banks. Issued OCC Bulletin 2023-17 reinforcing third-party risk management - directly relevant to LLM vendor use.

OCR

HHS Office for Civil Rights

Regulator

HHS office that enforces HIPAA and investigates breaches.

RBI

Reserve Bank of India

Regulator

India's central bank and banking regulator.

SEC

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Regulator

Federal regulator for securities markets, broker-dealers, and registered investment advisers (RIAs).

Regulation

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21 CFR Part 11

FDA Electronic Records and Signatures

Regulation

FDA rule on electronic records integrity - relevant when AI is part of regulated documentation workflows.

42 CFR Part 2

Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records

Regulation

Federal rule with stricter consent requirements than HIPAA for substance-use treatment records.

ABA Formal Op 512

ABA Formal Opinion 512

Regulation

2024 opinion on lawyer use of generative AI - requires competence, confidentiality, and informed consent.

BAA

Business Associate Agreement

Regulation

HIPAA-required contract with any vendor that processes PHI. Public LLMs do not sign BAAs - which is why clinician use is high-risk.

BSA / AML

Bank Secrecy Act / Anti-Money Laundering

Regulation

U.S. anti-financial-crime regime. AML investigators using ChatGPT to draft narratives risk leaking SAR-relevant data.

CCPA

California Consumer Privacy Act

Regulation

California privacy law, expanded by CPRA, with rights of access, deletion, and opt-out applicable to LLM training data.

EAR

Export Administration Regulations

Regulation

U.S. Commerce Department export controls on dual-use technology - also implicated by cross-border LLM data flows.

EU AI Act

European Union Artificial Intelligence Act

Regulation

First comprehensive AI law - risk-tiered obligations including transparency, documentation, and human oversight.

FINRA 3110

FINRA Rule 3110 (Supervision)

Regulation

Requires broker-dealers to supervise associated persons - including their use of AI to draft client communications.

FINRA 4511

FINRA Rule 4511 (Books and Records)

Regulation

Requires preservation of business communications - AI prompts and outputs used in advisory work may be in scope.

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation

Regulation

EU comprehensive data protection regulation. Public LLM use without legal basis or DPIA is a frequent violation pattern.

GLBA

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

Regulation

U.S. federal law requiring financial institutions to safeguard nonpublic personal information - directly implicated when client data is pasted into public LLMs.

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Regulation

U.S. federal law protecting PHI. Every paste of a chart into a non-BAA LLM is a potential breach.

HITECH

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act

Regulation

Strengthens HIPAA enforcement and breach-notification requirements; raised maximum OCR penalties.

ITAR

International Traffic in Arms Regulations

Regulation

U.S. export controls on defense articles and technical data - leaking ITAR data via an LLM is an export violation.

MRA

Matter Requiring Attention

Regulation

Formal supervisory finding from a U.S. banking regulator that requires corrective action - increasingly issued for AI governance gaps.

OMB M-24-10

OMB Memorandum M-24-10

Regulation

Federal memo requiring agencies to inventory AI uses, designate Chief AI Officers, and apply minimum risk practices.

Reg S-P

Regulation S-P

Regulation

SEC rule on the privacy of consumer financial information; amended 2024 to require breach notification - including LLM-related data exposures.

Schrems II

CJEU Schrems II Ruling

Regulation

EU court ruling that constrains transfers of personal data to the U.S. - relevant for any LLM hosted outside the EU.

Framework

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CMMC 2.0

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0

Framework

DoD certification required for defense contractors handling CUI - now expected to include AI controls.

DPIA

Data Protection Impact Assessment

Framework

GDPR-required assessment for high-risk processing - including new uses of employee LLMs.

FedRAMP

Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program

Framework

Standardized security authorization for cloud services used by U.S. federal agencies.

GxP

Good Practice (Manufacturing, Laboratory, Clinical)

Framework

Umbrella term for FDA-regulated quality practices. AI used in GxP-validated systems must itself be validated.

ISO 42001

ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System

Framework

International standard for establishing an AI management system - the AI equivalent of ISO 27001.

NIST 800-171

NIST Special Publication 800-171

Framework

Controls for protecting CUI in non-federal systems - the technical backbone of CMMC.

NIST AI RMF

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

Framework

Voluntary framework (AI 100-1) for managing AI risk - Govern, Map, Measure, Manage. The preferred anchor for AI governance programs in the U.S.

SOC 2

AICPA SOC 2

Framework

Audit framework for service organizations covering security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

SR 11-7

Federal Reserve SR 11-7 Model Risk Management

Framework

Federal Reserve supervisory guidance on model risk management. Banking regulators expect LLMs to be governed under SR 11-7 principles.

SSP

System Security Plan

Framework

Document describing how a system meets NIST 800-171 / FedRAMP controls. AI use must be scoped in the SSP.

Security

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CASB

Cloud Access Security Broker

Security

Proxy for SaaS app traffic. Can see app usage but not prompt-level content or intent.

DLP

Data Loss Prevention

Security

Signature-based tooling for blocking known data patterns leaving via known channels. Blind to conversational LLM prompts.

EDR

Endpoint Detection and Response

Security

Endpoint security platform - useful for malware, blind to legitimate browser-based ChatGPT use.

Prompt Injection

Prompt Injection Attack

Security

Attack where untrusted content overrides an LLM's instructions to exfiltrate data or trigger unintended actions.

SIEM

Security Information and Event Management

Security

Log aggregation and correlation platform. Receives Tumeryk telemetry but does not natively see AI activity.

Technology

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Agentic AI

Autonomous AI Agents

Technology

AI systems that plan, call tools, and take actions on a user's behalf. Expands the Shadow AI attack surface beyond chat.

AI Trust Score™

Tumeryk AI Trust Score™

Technology

Tumeryk's quantitative score (0-1000) for any AI tool's enterprise risk - covering data handling, security posture, compliance, and governance maturity.

LLM

Large Language Model

Technology

Foundation model trained on text - e.g. GPT-4, Claude, Gemini. The primary risk surface Tumeryk governs.

MCP

Model Context Protocol

Technology

Open protocol for connecting LLMs to tools, data, and agents - the plumbing of Agentic AI.

RAG

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Technology

Pattern where an LLM is grounded with retrieved enterprise documents at inference time.

SaaS

Software as a Service

Technology

Cloud-delivered software. Most embedded AI (Notion AI, Grammarly, Salesforce Einstein) reaches employees via SaaS.

Shadow AI

Shadow AI

Technology

Use of AI tools without IT, security, or compliance sanction - the evolution of Shadow IT, multiplied by the speed of generative AI adoption.

Workforce AI Security

Workforce AI Security

Technology

Tumeryk's category - discovering, classifying, governing, and reporting on employee use of AI across browser, desktop, SaaS, and agents.

Data

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CUI

Controlled Unclassified Information

Data

Government information that requires safeguarding but is not classified. CUI in a public LLM prompt can suspend a contract.

KYC

Know Your Customer

Data

Identity verification process at financial institutions; KYC documents contain PII that must never enter public LLMs.

MNPI

Material Non-Public Information

Data

Information that, if disclosed, could move a security's price. Pasting MNPI into a public LLM may constitute selective disclosure.

PHI

Protected Health Information

Data

Individually identifiable health information protected under HIPAA.

PII

Personally Identifiable Information

Data

Any data that can identify a person. The first thing Tumeryk's classifier flags in LLM prompts.