Is Sharing Sensitive Data with ChatGPT Risky?
The answer is Yes.
Sharing sensitive data with ChatGPT or any other online service carries some inherent risks, and it’s important to be cautious.
Good News, GTB’s Data Security that Workstm does cover ChatGPT, so if by chance an end user posts sensitive data, including unstructured IP such as source code, to ChatGPT, GTB will detect and follow through on the policy.
Here are a few factors to consider when utilizing online services:
- Data Privacy: When sharing sensitive data with an online service, there is a potential risk of unauthorized access, data breaches, or misuse of the information. It’s essential to assess the privacy policies and security measures of the service provider to ensure they have appropriate safeguards in place.
- Encryption and Security Measures: Evaluate whether the service you are using employs encryption protocols and other security measures to protect the data during transmission and storage. Encryption can help ensure that even if the data is intercepted, it remains unreadable to unauthorized parties.
- Data Retention: Understand how long the service retains your data and whether they have policies in place for securely deleting or anonymizing the information after a certain period. Limiting data retention can reduce the risk of long-term exposure.
- Compliance and Regulations: Consider whether the service provider complies with relevant data protection regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or other industry-specific requirements. Compliance with these regulations indicates a commitment to protecting user data.
- User Awareness and Practices: Users should be cautious when sharing sensitive data and ensure they don’t inadvertently disclose personally identifiable information or confidential data. Exercise good judgment and avoid sharing sensitive information unless necessary.
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Visibility: Accurately, discover sensitive data; detect and address broken business process, or insider threats including sensitive data breach attempts.
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- Employees and organizations have knowledge and control of the information leaving the organization, where it is being sent, and where it is being preserved.
- Ability to allow user classification to give them influence in how the data they produce is controlled, which increases protection and end-user adoption.
- Control your data across your entire domain in one Central Management Dashboard with Universal policies.
- Many levels of control together with the ability to warn end-users of possible non-compliant – risky activities, protecting from malicious insiders and human error.
- Full data discovery collection detects sensitive data anywhere it is stored, and provides strong classification, watermarking, and other controls.
- Delivers full technical controls on who can copy what data, to what devices, what can be printed, and/or watermarked.
- Integrate with GRC workflows.
- Reduce the risk of fines and non-compliance.
- Protect intellectual property and corporate assets.
- Ensure compliance within industry, regulatory, and corporate policy.
- Ability to enforce boundaries and control what types of sensitive information can flow where.
- Control data flow to third parties and between business units.
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