The AI era is complicating — and exponentiating — the challenges of safeguarding essential and sensitive data. Security leaders must revisit their data security approaches to keep up.
“AI is exposing more sensitive information as [workers] are taking that information and typing it into LLMs,” says Errol Weiss, CSO at Health-ISAC.
AI tools make it easy for employees to easily expose sensitive data, Weiss says. They can quickly input protected information into a public AI model to tackle everyday tasks, thinking they’re working efficiently without realizing the data privacy risks they’re taking. “We now have hundreds of thousands of people using the technology that way today,” he adds.
