3 data security disciplines to drive AI innovation

AI hype and adoption are seemingly at an all-time high with nearly 70% of respondents to a recent S&P report on Global AI Trends saying they have at least one AI project in production.\u00a0 While the promise of AI can fundamentally reshape business operations, it has also created new risk vectors and opened the doors to nefarious individuals that most enterprises are not currently equipped to mitigate.\n\nIn the last 6 months, three reports (S&P Global’s 2023 Global Trends in AI report, Foundry\u2019s 2023 AI Priorities Study, and Forrester\u2019s report Security And Privacy Concerns Are The Biggest Barriers To Adopting Generative AI) all had the same findings: data security is the top challenge and barrier for organizations looking to adopt and implement generative AI. The surging interest in implementing AI has directly increased the volume of data that organizations store across their cloud environments. Unsurprisingly, the more data that is stored, accessed, and processed across different cloud architectures that typically also span different geographic jurisdictions, the more security and privacy risks arise.\n\nIf organizations don\u2019t have the right protections in place, they instantly become a prime target for cybercriminals which according to a Unit 42 2024 Incident Response Report are increasing the speed at which they steal data with 45% of attackers exfiltrating data in less than a day after compromise. As we enter this new \u201cAI era\u201d where data is the lifeblood, the organizations that understand and prioritize data security will be in pole position to safely pursue all that AI has to offer without fear of future ramifications.\n\nDeveloping the foundation for an effective data security program\n\nAn effective data security program for this new AI era can be broken down into three principles:\n\nBy focusing on these three data security disciplines, organizations can confidently explore and innovate with AI without fear that they\u2019ve opened the company up to risks.\n\nTo learn more, visit us here.\n\nContent sourced from: