Around seven percent of prompts potentially disclosed company data.
Employees use an average of 254 AI enabled apps in the workplace.
According to research by Harmonic of 8,000 GenAI users in workplaces in Q1, these could put company data at risk via unsafe prompts. Also seven percent experiment with China-based apps.
Of the 176,000 prompts studied by Harmonic Security between January and March, some 6.7 percent potentially disclosed company data. Of this number, nearly a third (30.8 percent) put legal and finance data at risk.
Alastair Paterson, CEO and co-founder of Harmonic Security comments: “There are several areas of concern. Firstly, the nature of the prompts going into the tools which put valuable company data at risk. Secondly that so much use is with personal accounts which are often outside of company IT control.”
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
