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Glossary: Security Monitoring and Automation

guardrail

Also written: guardrails

A limit around an AI tool or automation, enforced by ordinary code it can't argue its way past: an allow-list, protected targets, human approval, rate limits and a decision log. guardrail.py refused to block the SIEM's own address.

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