Walmart, Amazon, and Microsoft have all issued warnings to their employees about sharing corporate secrets when using AI tools like ChatGPT. At the Identiverse conference, many CISOs confirmed that they had introduced policies around AI usage to mitigate the potential dangers. Ed Harris, Mauser Packaging’s CISO, expressed concerns that if an employee enters sensitive corporate information into an external AI tool, the tool might remember the data and share it with others including competitors. CISOs participating in the conference warned that as AI continues to embed itself into employee tasks, usage parameters need to be established. AI policies will differ based on individual companies’ needs and might include guidelines to avoid the sharing of specific types of information with AI tools, or instructions on how to identify malicious responses from AI tools.
*Mauser Packaging is a leading industrial packaging company that plans to merge with New Zealand’s Brambles.
*Ed Harris is the Chief Information Security Officer at Mauser Packaging.
