Unbound and BD Emerson Join Forces to Tackle AI Model Risk for Businesses

Companies are facing an AI dichotomy: Almost 80% of businesses say they get significant value out of AI. At the same time, 48% of employees are entering sensitive company data on gen AI apps. While engaging with gen AI offers a myriad of benefits to businesses, the bottom line is that using gen AI apps is risky. A majority of businesses that engage with gen AI risk data loss, privacy regulation violations, and failing to fulfill contractual requirements. Unbound allows employees to continue using AI apps without inadvertently sharing company secrets.

What is Unbound?

Unbound is a tool that helps businesses use AI safely – by protecting sensitive company information and data when employees use AI tools. Unbound provides a secure gateway for AI that offers companies comprehensive visibility, integrates with 10+ LLM providers, and delivers built-in guardrails.

Unbound offers businesses centralized control and visibility of AI usage by application and user, enabling them to monitor and track the systems and applications that have potential access to company information. With an extremely versatile platform, Unbound is able to integrate with a company’s LLM of choice with native integrations to top AI providers on a single endpoint. Using Unbound allows companies to curb malicious behavior and restrict enterprise PII and context on AI chat prompts, which are often used by employees to complete certain tasks.

Why Choose Unbound?

Facilitate Contractual Requirements

Unbound provides granular controls over data handling when interacting with AI tools like OpenAI, and steers employees toward sanctioned alternatives in order to reinforce usage policies and fulfill contractual requirements. Unbound’s platform enables business owners to view the use cases of AI applications across departments and users. This visibility allows businesses to explore how their employees are leveraging AI for their roles, and empowers them to use this information for the development of internal trainings, tool creation, and purchasing decisions.

Prevent Violations of Privacy Regulations

A majority of gen AI inputs contain sensitive information, which exposes businesses that use gen AI to non-compliance. Unbound helps companies stay compliant with regulations like GDPR by implementing strict data protection measures for AI interactions. It ensures data anonymization and pseudonymization, reducing the risk of exposing sensitive data, and provides consent management tools to track and enforce proper data usage. Unbound also enforces the data minimization principle, allowing AI models to access only the necessary data, mitigating regulatory risks. 

Enforce ITGC-aligned Security Measures

Unbound’s platform aligns with ITGCs from security frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 to ensure that the way a business uses AI tools meets industry-standard security controls. This includes encrypting sensitive data and monitoring AI interactions to verify compliance with security and privacy requirements. Integrating Unbound also creates a detailed audit trail for businesses, providing transparency regarding AI use for compliance reviews and audits

Control Data Loss

To control data leakage, Unbound prevents the upload of sensitive information to risky AI apps by using employee-friendly controls like data inspection, policy enforcement, encryption, and data masking. These controls enhance confidentiality and protect companies from unintentionally exposing proprietary or customer data to external AI systems, reinforcing their data governance framework.

Incorporate Effective Risk Management

According to the Cisco 2024 Data Privacy Survey, 92% of security professionals are concerned about compliance regarding gen AI. Unbound addresses this concern by limiting how AI tools access sensitive data and enforcing usage policies to provide comprehensive protection. By reducing exposure to unforeseen AI risks, Unbound helps businesses innovate while maintaining their security posture.

Maintain Data Integrity

Unbound also addresses the often-overlooked issue of data integrity. Unapproved or unvetted tools used by analysts and developers can inadvertently compromise the quality and reliability of company data. Unbound safeguards data integrity by ensuring that only authorized, approved tools are used for AI-related tasks, preventing unauthorized modifications that could degrade the accuracy or value of corporate data.

Why BD Emerson is Partnering with Unbound

As trusted advisors in cybersecurity and compliance, we are excited to partner with Unbound and provide companies with proactive solutions for engaging with gen AI in the safest way possible. Our collaboration offers a comprehensive approach to maintaining the highest cybersecurity standards and regulatory compliance while still reaping the benefits of engaging with gen AI tools and applications. 

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