AI data protection: what models can’t unlearn
The riskiest thing in your environment this quarter probably isn’t a model. It’s a folder named “Finance – Shared” that half the company has been able to open since 2019, plus a new AI assistant that can read it, summarize it, and cite it on request.
AI didn’t create a new exposure. It just hired the most thorough reader your organization has ever had and handed it the permissions everyone else already has.
Security through obscurity no longer works
Over-permissioned data has always been a known problem and a quiet one. Files were technically reachable and practically undiscoverable, because nobody browses 40 terabytes of shared drives hoping to find a severance agreement. The risk sat there for years, unexploited, somewhere below the line on every access review.
AI assistants come along as data retrieval tools. An assistant reads everything it can reach and answers in plain language based on what’s...
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