By Lolita Chandra - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Skyhigh Security
September 4, 2024 5 Minute Read
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming an indispensable element of business operations. As organizations harness the power of AI to revolutionize their processes, the need for robust and secure AI usage becomes more critical than ever. Skyhigh Security is leading this transformative journey with Skyhigh AI, a cutting-edge suite of AI-powered capabilities designed to enable organizations to safely adopt AI applications while optimizing their security operations with intelligent automation, AI and machine learning (ML).
The Rise of AI: A Double-Edged Sword
The rapid adoption of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, which skyrocketed to over 100,000 monthly active users within just three months of its launch, underscores the potential of AI to revolutionize business operations—offering benefits like reduced costs, increased efficiency, time savings, and improved customer experiences. However, this technological advancement also comes with significant risks. Many organizations, federal agencies and even entire countries have banned or blocked the use of AI applications like ChatGPT due to incidents of sensitive data leaks and privacy breaches, revealing the dark side of unchecked AI adoption.
These risks are not just theoretical; they are happening in real-time. Once confidential data is fed into AI models as training data, there is no going back—it’s irretrievably out of the organization’s control. Skyhigh AI is here to address these challenges by providing visibility, protection, and compliance for AI application usage, ensuring organizations can embrace AI’s potential without compromising security.
Skyhigh AI comprises a best-of-breed portfolio of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities designed to mitigate risks associated with AI applications while also transforming security operations to increase efficiency and productivity. Skyhigh AI has two dimensions:
- Mitigating Risks Associated with AI Applications: Enabling organizations to embrace AI without sacrificing security by increasing visibility, enhancing protection, and meeting compliance needs.
- Transforming Security Operations: Harnessing the power of AI and ML to optimize security operations, boosting efficiency and productivity while minimizing complexity, risk, and cost.
Mitigating Risks Associated with AI Applications
Skyhigh AI enables organizations to protect their data, infrastructure, and applications from the risks associated with AI app usage by increasing visibility, improving protection, and ensuring compliance. Implementing robust security measures for AI apps can significantly reduce costs by preventing costly data breaches, minimizing legal fees and regulatory fines, and reducing the need for expensive incident response measures. Skyhigh AI enables the safe use of AI applications by giving organizations increased visibility, enhanced protection and preventing non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
Increase Visibility
You can’t protect what you can’t see—this adage holds true for AI applications as well. Skyhigh AI provides unparalleled visibility into every AI application within an organization, giving security teams the insights they need to manage potential risks effectively. With access to the Skyhigh Cloud Registry, organizations gain instant visibility into over 1,200 AI applications, including shadow, private, and sanctioned AI apps. Not only do they see which applications are being used, but they also get a comprehensive risk assessment for each app, including the potential risks posed by large language models (LLMs). This level of visibility is crucial to proactively manage and mitigate risks associated with AI applications.
Enhance Protection
AI applications, while powerful, can expose sensitive data to unprecedented risks, including unauthorized access, data loss, and security breaches. Skyhigh AI mitigates these risks with robust governance controls, such as disabling chat history and training, blocking risky AI applications, and preventing sensitive data from being entered into AI applications. Skyhigh AI capabilities also enforce policies to address LLM risks, including jailbreaking, toxicity, bias, and malware.
Meet Compliance Needs
Navigating the complex landscape of regulatory requirements can be daunting, especially with the rapid adoption of new technologies that increase the attack surface and make organizations vulnerable to new and evolving risks. Skyhigh AI ensures regulatory compliance is maintained by applying strict data controls to AI applications. This includes preventing the loss of sensitive data by applying governance-based controls using Skyhigh Security’s advanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP), giving visibility into over 1,200 AI applications in the Skyhigh Cloud Registry, protecting sensitive data from risky AI apps and LLM risks, while promoting a culture of compliance adherence. Real-time coaching informs and educates employees about the risks of AI applications, fostering a culture of security and compliance awareness.
Transforming Security Operations
As cyber threats grow in volume, sophistication, and impact, the need for advanced, intelligent security solutions has never been more critical. At the same time, a significant shortage of cybersecurity skills is widening the gap between the tsunami of threats and the ability to effectively keep them at bay. According to the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024, the average cost of a data breach has risen to $4.88 million, and the cyber skills shortage has jumped by 26.2%. However, the same report reveals a silver lining: organizations that extensively leverage AI in their cybersecurity operations have achieved average cost savings of US $2.2 million. This stark contrast highlights a powerful truth—AI and automation are not just beneficial; they are transformative.
The Reality of SOC Challenges: The Heavy Burden of Alert Overload
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) face a staggering reality. On average, SOC teams are only able to review half of the alerts generated each day, and they spend about a third of their time sifting through false positives, according to the 2023 Global Security Operations Center Study by Morning Consult. This overwhelming backlog of alerts not only burdens analysts with mundane, repetitive tasks but also increases the risk of real threats slipping by unnoticed. False positives contribute to alert fatigue, low morale, and ultimately, a weakened security posture.
As the same report suggests, “More AI and automation in toolsets is the biggest opportunity to improve threat response time across most markets.” This is precisely where Skyhigh AI comes into play—transforming enterprise security operations by leveraging AI and ML to boost efficiency, reduce complexity, and lower risk.
Increasing Efficiency
Skyhigh AI elevates SOC efficiency by automating routine tasks and minimizing false positives. When security teams no longer have to wade through countless alerts, they can focus their expertise on real threats and more critical tasks. For example, ML-Based False Positive Detection reduces the volume of false positives that security analysts encounter, significantly cutting down their workload, lowering analyst fatigue and boosting morale. By alleviating the burden of alert fatigue, Skyhigh AI enables security teams to stay sharp and focused on defending the organization from real, evolving threats.
Reducing Complexity
Enterprise security operations usually require managing numerous tools and processes, which can quickly become overwhelming. Skyhigh AI simplifies this complexity, offering a robust yet streamlined approach to data security. With features like the AI-powered DLP Assistant, users can effortlessly and quickly create complex regular expressions in any language, reducing human error and saving a significant amount of time. Additionally, ML-Based Data Categorization simplifies DLP administration by categorizing content across all threat vectors in real time—saving time, enhancing scalability, and improving accuracy.
Lowering Risk
With machine learning, Skyhigh AI enhances the detection of insider threats and malware, continuously analyzing patterns and behaviors to identify risks before they can escalate. By spotting anomalies and suspicious activities early on, Skyhigh AI empowers organizations to act swiftly and decisively, preventing incidents from becoming costly breaches. From insider threat detection to advanced malware protection, Skyhigh AI’s machine learning capabilities fortify your defenses against a constantly evolving threat landscape.
Conclusion: Embracing a Future of Intelligent Security
Skyhigh Security is setting a new standard in cybersecurity by harnessing the power of AI and ML. With Skyhigh AI, organizations can confidently secure their AI applications and optimize their security operations, all while reducing complexity, risk and costs. As the adoption of AI accelerates, Skyhigh AI provides the essential peace of mind organizations need to embrace the future securely and intelligently.
In the face of ever-evolving threats, the message is clear: The future of security is AI-driven. To learn more Skyhigh AI visit the web page, watch this video, read the solution brief or feel free to contact us.
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