The Challenge
Generative AI technology enhances business productivity by automating tasks, streamlining operations, and fostering innovation across industries, but it also creates a new class of security risks.
Possible risk exposure includes a potential for data breaches, as sensitive information used to train models could be exposed; maliciously crafted AI-generated code that may introduce vulnerabilities or backdoors, risking system integrity; and biases in AI-generated content that may perpetuate misinformation and false data.
With AI being outside the skillsets and infrastructure capacities of most organizations, Generative AI tools are mostly external services and 3rd party applications that can be easily adapted and used. As such, AI app and plugins create the potential for sensitive corporate data to be processed and stored with external vendors without encryption, anonymization, or granular access controls.