Over half of gen AI inputs contain PII and sensitive data

In a new report on the impact of generative AI on security posture, Menlo Security looks at employee usage of gen AI and the subsequent security risks these behaviors pose to organizations. It finds that 55 percent of data loss prevention events detected by Menlo Security in the last thirty days included attempts to input personally identifiable information. The next most common type of data that triggered DLP detections included confidential documents, which represented 40 percent of input attempts. The report also finds an 80 percent increase in attempted file uploads to generative AI websites. Researchers attribute this increase partly… [Continue Reading]