ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms have rightly earned their reputation as the ultimate productivity boosters in a short period of time. However, any technology that can rapidly produce high-quality text on demand can also expose sensitive company data. A recent incident in which Samsung software his engineers pasted their own code into his ChatGPT clearly shows that the tool is prone to potential data exfiltration channels. This vulnerability poses a severe challenge for security practitioners as there are no existing data protection tools to prevent sensitive data from being exposed to ChatGPT. In this article, we take a closer look at this security challenge and show how Browser Security his solution can provide a solution. Organizations can fully realize the productivity potential of his ChatGPT without having to sacrifice data security.
ChatGPT data protection blind spots: how can you control text insertion in the browser?
Every time an employee pastes or types text into ChatGPT, that text is no longer controlled by corporate data protection tools and policies. It doesn’t matter if the text was copied from a traditional data file, an online document, or another source. Actually that’s the problem.All data loss prevention (DLP) solutions, from on-premises agents to CASBs file orientedApply policies to files based on their content while preventing actions such as modification, download, and sharing. However, this feature is of little use for ChatGPT data protection. There are no files associated with ChatGPT. Rather, it includes usages such as copying and pasting snippets of text or typing directly into web pages, which is beyond the governance and control of existing DLP products.
How browser security solutions prevent insecure data usage on ChatGPT
LayerX has announced a browser security platform for continuous monitoring, risk analysis, and real-time protection of browser sessions. Delivered as a browser extension, LayerX provides fine-grained visibility into all events that occur within a session. This allows LayerX to detect risky behavior and configure policies to prevent pre-defined actions from being taken.
To protect sensitive data from being uploaded to ChatGPT, LayerX uses this visibility to identify attempted text insertion events such as “paste” and “type” within ChatGPT tabs. If the text content of the “paste” event violates corporate data protection policies, LayerX will prevent the action entirely.
To enable this feature, security teams using LayerX must define phrases or regular expressions to protect against exposure. Next, we need to create a LayerX policy that will be triggered whenever these strings are matched.
See it in action:
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| Setting Policies in the LayerX Dashboard |
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| LayerX blocks users from copying sensitive information to ChatGPT |
Additionally, organizations that want to prevent their employees from using ChatGPT completely can use LayerX to block access to the ChatGPT website or other online AI-based text generators, including browser extensions like ChatGPT. can.
Learn more about LayerX ChatGPT data protection here.
Get comprehensive SaaS protection with LayerX’s browser security platform
Differences that make LayerX the only solution that can effectively address ChatGPT data protection gaps Placement in the browser itself Get real-time visibility and policy enforcement in real browser sessions. This approach also makes it an ideal solution for protecting against cyberthreats that target browser data and user activity, as is the case with SaaS applications.
Users interact with SaaS apps through a browser. This allows LayerX to easily protect both the data within these apps and the apps themselves. This is accomplished by applying the following types of policies to user activity across web sessions:
Data protection policy: In addition to standard file-oriented protection (preventing copying/sharing/downloading etc.), LayerX offers the same in-depth protection as it does for ChatGPT. In fact, once your organization has defined inputs that should not be pasted, the same policy can be extended to prevent this data from being published to any web or SaaS location.
Account compromise mitigation: LayerX monitors each user’s activity in your organization’s SaaS apps. The platform detects anomalous behavior or data exchanges that indicate a user’s account has been compromised. LayerX policies can then trigger session termination or disable the user’s ability to manipulate data within the app.
Learn more about LayerX ChatGPT data protection here.
