The AI era is complicating — and exponentiating — the challenges of safeguarding essential and sensitive data. Security leaders must revisit their data security approaches to keep up.

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CISOs are being forced to rethink data protection strategies as AI adoption accelerates data exposure risks. Employees routinely paste sensitive data into public LLMs, DLP tools often lack lateral movement monitoring, and data classification remains immature at many organizations. Security leaders share concrete actions: layering AI-aware data classification, adopting zero-trust frameworks, making IAM central to data strategy, addressing data provenance, and increasing cadence of strategy reviews. Research from Cisco and ISACA shows 90% of organizations have expanded privacy programs due to AI, yet 20% still don't monitor their privacy programs at all.

CISOs rethink their data protection strategies