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.
Sales
· 10AUM
Assets Under Management
Total market value of assets a firm manages on behalf of clients - the primary sizing metric for wealth management firms.
BDR
Business Development Representative
Outbound prospecting role similar to an SDR, often focused on net-new logos and strategic accounts.
Also: BDM
ICP
Ideal Customer Profile
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
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
Predictable monthly subscription revenue - the metric MSP and MSSP partners care about when adding Workforce AI Security to their stack.
MSP
Managed Service Provider
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
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
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
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
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
· 7CCO
Chief Compliance Officer
Executive accountable for regulatory compliance and examiner readiness. Cares about audit evidence, documented controls, and policy enforcement.
CIO
Chief Information Officer
Executive owning IT strategy and rollouts including Microsoft Copilot. Wants Tumeryk to unblock - not slow down - AI adoption.
CISO
Chief Information Security Officer
Executive accountable for cybersecurity strategy, controls, and incident response. Primary buyer for Workforce AI Security.
CRO
Chief Risk Officer
Executive responsible for the enterprise risk register, including AI risk scoring and quantification.
CUO
Chief Underwriting Officer
Insurance executive accountable for underwriting decisions - now including AI-assisted underwriting under NAIC Model Bulletin 2023-1.
DPO
Data Protection Officer
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
Firm or individual registered with the SEC or a state to provide investment advice.
Regulator
· 15ABA
American Bar Association
Professional association issuing model rules and formal opinions adopted by most state bars.
ASIC
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Australia's corporate, markets, and financial-services regulator.
CFPB
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Federal regulator for consumer financial products. Has issued guidance on AI-driven decisioning and fair lending.
DOI
Department of Insurance
State-level insurance regulator. Many states have adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on AI.
FDA
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Federal regulator for drugs, biologics, and medical devices - including AI/ML-enabled medical devices.
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
U.S. banking regulator and deposit insurer. Has joined OCC and Federal Reserve on AI risk guidance.
FINRA
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
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
UK data protection regulator - has issued specific guidance on generative AI.
MAS
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Singapore's integrated financial regulator and central bank. Issued FEAT principles for AI in finance.
NAIC
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
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
State regulator with broad authority; NYDFS Part 500 cybersecurity regulation now extends to AI-related risks.
OCC
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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
HHS office that enforces HIPAA and investigates breaches.
RBI
Reserve Bank of India
India's central bank and banking regulator.
SEC
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Federal regulator for securities markets, broker-dealers, and registered investment advisers (RIAs).
Regulation
· 1921 CFR Part 11
FDA Electronic Records and Signatures
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
Federal rule with stricter consent requirements than HIPAA for substance-use treatment records.
ABA Formal Op 512
ABA Formal Opinion 512
2024 opinion on lawyer use of generative AI - requires competence, confidentiality, and informed consent.
BAA
Business Associate Agreement
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
U.S. anti-financial-crime regime. AML investigators using ChatGPT to draft narratives risk leaking SAR-relevant data.
CCPA
California Consumer Privacy Act
California privacy law, expanded by CPRA, with rights of access, deletion, and opt-out applicable to LLM training data.
EAR
Export Administration Regulations
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
First comprehensive AI law - risk-tiered obligations including transparency, documentation, and human oversight.
FINRA 3110
FINRA Rule 3110 (Supervision)
Requires broker-dealers to supervise associated persons - including their use of AI to draft client communications.
FINRA 4511
FINRA Rule 4511 (Books and Records)
Requires preservation of business communications - AI prompts and outputs used in advisory work may be in scope.
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
EU comprehensive data protection regulation. Public LLM use without legal basis or DPIA is a frequent violation pattern.
GLBA
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
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
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
Strengthens HIPAA enforcement and breach-notification requirements; raised maximum OCR penalties.
ITAR
International Traffic in Arms Regulations
U.S. export controls on defense articles and technical data - leaking ITAR data via an LLM is an export violation.
MRA
Matter Requiring Attention
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
Federal memo requiring agencies to inventory AI uses, designate Chief AI Officers, and apply minimum risk practices.
Reg S-P
Regulation S-P
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
EU court ruling that constrains transfers of personal data to the U.S. - relevant for any LLM hosted outside the EU.
Framework
· 10CMMC 2.0
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0
DoD certification required for defense contractors handling CUI - now expected to include AI controls.
DPIA
Data Protection Impact Assessment
GDPR-required assessment for high-risk processing - including new uses of employee LLMs.
FedRAMP
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
Standardized security authorization for cloud services used by U.S. federal agencies.
GxP
Good Practice (Manufacturing, Laboratory, Clinical)
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
International standard for establishing an AI management system - the AI equivalent of ISO 27001.
NIST 800-171
NIST Special Publication 800-171
Controls for protecting CUI in non-federal systems - the technical backbone of CMMC.
NIST AI RMF
NIST AI Risk Management 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
Audit framework for service organizations covering security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
SR 11-7
Federal Reserve SR 11-7 Model Risk Management
Federal Reserve supervisory guidance on model risk management. Banking regulators expect LLMs to be governed under SR 11-7 principles.
SSP
System Security Plan
Document describing how a system meets NIST 800-171 / FedRAMP controls. AI use must be scoped in the SSP.
Security
· 5CASB
Cloud Access Security Broker
Proxy for SaaS app traffic. Can see app usage but not prompt-level content or intent.
DLP
Data Loss Prevention
Signature-based tooling for blocking known data patterns leaving via known channels. Blind to conversational LLM prompts.
EDR
Endpoint Detection and Response
Endpoint security platform - useful for malware, blind to legitimate browser-based ChatGPT use.
Prompt Injection
Prompt Injection Attack
Attack where untrusted content overrides an LLM's instructions to exfiltrate data or trigger unintended actions.
SIEM
Security Information and Event Management
Log aggregation and correlation platform. Receives Tumeryk telemetry but does not natively see AI activity.
Technology
· 8Agentic AI
Autonomous AI Agents
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™
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
Foundation model trained on text - e.g. GPT-4, Claude, Gemini. The primary risk surface Tumeryk governs.
MCP
Model Context Protocol
Open protocol for connecting LLMs to tools, data, and agents - the plumbing of Agentic AI.
RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Pattern where an LLM is grounded with retrieved enterprise documents at inference time.
SaaS
Software as a Service
Cloud-delivered software. Most embedded AI (Notion AI, Grammarly, Salesforce Einstein) reaches employees via SaaS.
Shadow AI
Shadow AI
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
Tumeryk's category - discovering, classifying, governing, and reporting on employee use of AI across browser, desktop, SaaS, and agents.
Data
· 5CUI
Controlled Unclassified Information
Government information that requires safeguarding but is not classified. CUI in a public LLM prompt can suspend a contract.
KYC
Know Your Customer
Identity verification process at financial institutions; KYC documents contain PII that must never enter public LLMs.
MNPI
Material Non-Public Information
Information that, if disclosed, could move a security's price. Pasting MNPI into a public LLM may constitute selective disclosure.
PHI
Protected Health Information
Individually identifiable health information protected under HIPAA.
PII
Personally Identifiable Information
Any data that can identify a person. The first thing Tumeryk's classifier flags in LLM prompts.
