Forbes January 13, 2025
Aparna Achanta is a Principal Security Architect at IBM with over a decade of experience leading secure application development projects.
Organizations are looking to rapidly seek value from generative AI (GenAI), often neglecting a vital aspect: security. A recent IBM Institute for Business Value survey involving C-suite executives revealed that only 24% of ongoing GenAI projects take security into consideration. This is despite 82% of participants emphasizing that secure and reliable AI is crucial for their business’s success. In the quest to enhance efficiency and automate routine tasks to free up time, employees often use public GenAI applications, exposing sensitive data. While employees have good intentions, they frequently overlook crucial data security and privacy issues. GenAI will revolutionize operations; therefore,...