How to Manage Risks When Employees Use AI Secretly for Work

A developer reports that Microsoft GitHub Copilot has activated without its explicit consent in private workspaces, exposing them to security and privacy risks GitHub Copilot, the coding assistant powered by the artificial intelligence of Microsoft and OpenAI, has become an essential tool for many developers. Its role is to suggest code in real time, thus facilitating programming and speeding up the development process. However,...

Microsoft Supports Solutions to Help Feds Police Their AI Work

Many government organizations are grappling with how to use artificial intelligence securely. There are major concerns regarding sensitive information being fed inadvertently into AI environments, unauthorized access to AI environments enabling data breaches, and tampering with AI environments to alter outputs, among other risks.   AI security is even more challenging for organizations, including agencies, that are subject to additional cybersec…

How to Manage Risks When Employees Use AI Secretly for Work

The unauthorized adoption of generative AI in the workplace, termed “bring your own AI,” presents security and governance challenges.

How employees are becoming threat actors

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating across the business landscape as organisations aim to reap its potential benefits. However, recent incidents involving AI leaking corporate data show that embracing AI comes with a risk, as employees using AI tools at work might become involuntarily threat actors. “As generative AI tools become deeply embedded in the workplace, the security risks stemming from employee misuse — intenti…