Respect your data, and protect it

Sponsored Post Ensuring access to mission critical, AI-enabled applications is important for modern businesses keen on boosting employee productivity and transforming customer operations. But not if it compromises data security.

Anand Oswal is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Network Security at Palo Alto Networks. He believes that employees are already using generative AI (GenAI) applications on a weekly basis, often without the knowledge or consent of the IT department. What's more, the next few years will see thousands of new AI-powered business solutions emerge across every major category - DevOps, workflow analysis, sales and marketing, virtual assistants etc - most of which will be built to ingest and process large volumes of unstructured data.

But that explosion of activity comes with the risk of expanding the attack surface and introducing vulnerabilities into supply chains which often span multiple sites, locations, customers and business partners.

You can hear more in this video – Securing AI by Design where Anand discusses the importance of securing AI applications in the workplace to protect sensitive data and prevent malicious attacks.

He explains how different AI applications can share mission critical information with few or no security and access controls, and outlines how Palo Alto Networks' AI Access Security platform has been built to provide complete visibility into, and automated recommendations for, security policies to ensure data privacy.

By applying runtime security to the development process, you can make sure applications are easily discoverable and the data they use is protected, for example. The video features testimonies from Palo Alto Networks' customers including CostCo, Better, NetApp, Dell and Sable, many of which have launched AI-enabled apps for their own customers and need to ensure that the data those applications use is tagged as proprietary and confidential, and doesn't make it outside of the corporate firewall without their knowledge.

You can watch Anand's presentation by scrolling over the video above or clicking this link.

Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks.