Security News > 2023 > June > Generative-AI apps & ChatGPT: Potential risks and mitigation strategies

The rise of Generative-AI apps and GPT services exacerbates this issue, with employees of all departments rapidly adding the latest and greatest AI apps to their productivity arsenal, without the security team's knowledge.

From engineering apps such as code review and optimization to marketing, design and sales apps such as content & video creation, image creation and email automation apps.

With ChatGPT becoming the fastest growing app in history, and AI-powered apps being downloaded 1506% more than last year, the security risks of using, and even worse, connecting these often unvetted apps to business core systems is already causing sleepless nights for security leaders.

Data Sharing via apps like ChatGPT: The power of AI lies in data, but this very strength can be a weakness if mismanaged.

Unverified Generative-AI apps: Not all generative AI apps come from verified sources.

Astrix's recent research reveals that employees are increasingly connecting these AI-based apps to core systems like GitHub, Salesforce and such - raising significant security concerns.

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