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Our last post demonstrated how shadow AI tools ramp up risk and why traditional cybersecurity tools aren’t designed to deliver meaningful visibility into AI processes. Which means you need a way to see your data and know what it’s doing.
Start Small—at the Binary Level
The only way to know what your data really is—and what it’s actually doing—is to monitor everything. We do this with Flying Cloud CrowsNest, a patented data surveillance solution that delivers real-time data accountability for any kind of data. Crowsnest sees and fingerprints data at the binary level, wherever it is—databases, storage, apps, desktops, clouds, or device streams. CrowsNest knows the data structure, content, origination, purpose, movement, and relationship to other data and users without modifying the data in any way.
From the cloud, we simply connect to a data stream that you choose and fingerprint, classify, correlate, track, and defend those data binaries in real time. Wherever they go on your network.
We often fingerprint and track data streams across multiple clouds, such as Azure, AWS, Google, and Oracle. Wherever important data is moving and being used, we follow.
Accurate Visibility Delivers Accountability
Applying CrowsNest to your email traffic is a good way to quickly identify and begin reducing risk through automatic containment. Right away, you can see and track:
This basic visibility almost always uncovers unknown risky business. For example, a nonprofit organization wanted to make sure that its compliance measures were working as they expected. Imagine their surprise (and dismay)
to discover that more than 2,300 instances of PII data in email messages or attachments left the building while the existing DLP solution never knew.
That’s just one example. We’ve seen customers shocked that their firewall was failing to decrypt more than 50% of internal encrypted data before passing it to other security controls. Which meant that those controls couldn’t do their jobs either. Other customers realized they had high volumes of unprotected API-to-API traffic traveling their networks.
With visibility, all of these organizations were able to prioritize remediations and use CrowsNest to apply policy to the data for automatic containment. It took less than an hour to connect and begin monitoring data.
That’s Just Email
Simply monitoring email traffic uncovers previously unknown risk. With data surveillance, you can answer any questions related to data governance, cybersecurity, and risk assessment. What about data moving between critical operational systems, cybersecurity tools, dark storage data, or intellectual property secrets? You can integrate data surveillance visibility with existing applications, policies, and controls.
About That AI Tool or Project
When data is at risk—along with the rest of the organization depending on it—with something as known and simple as email, you can see how AI magnifies and expands those risks in unpredictable ways.
In a recent article on how AI assistants can be easily tricked, the example showed how an AI assistant can see text embedded in a web page that is invisible to the human eye and respond to act on those instructions. The example used a security credential instructed to be sent to an external malicious website.
Without data surveillance, the attacker just gained access to the organization’s secure assets. With CrowsNest, that credential could have policy applied to it, restricting its movement and usage. At the very least, you could keep it from being sent to an external address.
Want to see what’s in your data?
Contact us at https://www.flyingcloudtech.com/contact/ or your Google Sales Representative to arrange an assessment. We can implement CrowsNest from Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on a chosen data store within minutes. We recommend beginning with email data, because it’s mission-critical to most organizations, enables real-time visibility, and represents a significant source of unidentified risk that can be quickly mitigated.