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AI Security Risks and Data Visibility | CSA
AI can help improve security, but only if the fundamentals are already in place. For unstructured data security, AI increases both opportunity and risk. The outcome depends on whether organizations have built the necessary data visibility, classification, labeling, and governance foundations.

AI can enhance security, but only when robust data visibility and governance foundations are in place.
Executive Summary
AI can help improve security, but only if the fundamentals are already in place. For unstructured data security, AI increases both opportunity and risk. The outcome depends on whether organizations have built the necessary data visibility, classification, labeling, and governance foundations. Unstructured data is not a niche problem anymore. It is the everyday content of the enterprise: documents and files, communication data, and logs or observational data. In the survey, documents and files accounted for 73% of unstructured data volume. Communication data accounted for 62% and logs for 43%.
Source: @cloudsa
Authors: @cloudsa
Published: 2026-04-06
Original Article: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2026/04/06/ai-security-risks-start-with-poor-data-visibility
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