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MITRE's Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems, a knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques against AI, including agent-specific techniques 1.

Developed in
ch. 15, Threat modelling the deployed system
ch. 23, Threats mapped to controls
Chapters
ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 10, Reading List · ch. 15, Deployment · ch. 23, AI Agents
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

5 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

5 pattern pages use the term, most mentions first.

  • ASI01–ASI10

    The ten risks of the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026: ASI01 Agent Goal Hijack, ASI02 Tool Misuse and Exploitation, ASI03 Identity and Privilege…

  • STRIDE

    A threat-classification checklist from Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle: spoofing, tampering, repudiation, information disclosure, denial of service…

  • Threat model (AI)

    A versioned record of what can go wrong with an AI system and what is done about it: data flows and trust boundaries, threats per element from STRIDE and…

  • Memory poisoning

    An injection that writes to an agent's long-term memory, a retrieval corpus, a vector store or a hosted memory service, and so taints every later session that…

  • Tool poisoning

    Tampering with a tool an agent uses, through its model-visible definition (description, schema, metadata) or its behaviour, so the agent acts on false premises.

Sources

  1. [1] MITRE ATLAS (adversarial threat knowledge base for AI). MITRE. 2026. https://atlas.mitre.org/ (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). ATLAS. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/atlas. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026atlas,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{ATLAS}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/atlas}
}