Addressing the ConfusedPilot Threat

ConfusedPilot attacks, a term coined by University of Texas at Austin students mentored by Symmetry CEO Dr. Mohit Tiwari, represent a new class of threats targeting RAG-based systems like Microsoft Copilot. These attacks can lead to the dissemination of misinformation, potentially compromising critical decision-making processes within enterprises.

“The research into ConfusedPilot attacks highlights the asymmetry of AI security threats – these attacks are as easy as uploading a file, but defending against them is difficult,” said Dr. Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems. “Our enhanced Data+AI Security suite now provides robust protection against Confused Pilot attacks, ensuring that organizations can confidently leverage AI technologies without compromising data integrity or decision-making processes.”

Key Features of the Enhanced Data+AI Security Suite

This enhanced product line offers six key capabilities:

• Advanced Document Scanning: Utilizes Symmetry’s advanced data discovery and classification algorithms to identify potentially malicious documents that could be used in ConfusedPilot attacks.
• Content Integrity Monitoring: Implements checks to monitor the origin, authenticity and integrity of data used by RAG-based systems, and alert on changes by unauthorized personnel.
• Decision Impact Analysis: Provides insights into how potentially compromised data could affect enterprise decision-making processes.
• Prompt Monitoring: Searches, monitors, and alerts on suspicious prompts being used across the enterprise.
• Information Flow Barriers: Implements Data Firewalls to segment data sources for users, ensuring appropriate access controls.
• External Data Source Alerting: Monitors and alerts on the use of external data sources that could potentially introduce vulnerabilities.

Comprehensive Protection for the AI Era

This update to Symmetry’s Data+AI Security suite complements Symmetry’s existing capabilities and offers businesses a holistic approach to Data+AI security, covering everything from deployment readiness to ongoing threat protection.

“As organizations rapidly adopt AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, the need for cohesive security measures that look at both the data+AI has never been more critical,” added Tiwari. “Our expanded capabilities not only address immediate threats but also prepare businesses for the future of AI in the workplace.”

Availability and Implementation

The enhanced Data+AI Security suite with ConfusedPilot protection is available as an add-on for existing Symmetry Systems customers and will be offered to all new clients. Symmetry’s team of expert consultants is prepared to assist organizations in implementing these new features and integrating them into their existing security frameworks.

Find our more at the Data+AI Security Summit 2024

For those interested in learning more about ConfusedPilot and other emerging threats in the AI security landscape, we invite you to join us at the Symmetry Data+AI Security Summit 2024. This event will bring together industry experts, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the latest developments in AI security. For more information and to register, please visit the website here.

To learn more about Symmetry Systems expansion of its Data+AI Security and DSPM capabilities to combat the emerging threat of ConfusedPilot attacks, visit the website here.

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The Symmetry for Enterprise Gen AI product line is a new set of products, services and features purpose built to ensure intellectual property, personal information and other sensitive data within Microsoft 365 and other Gen AI technologies is not inadvertently exposed through the integration into your organization’s working environment. Unlike generic data security solutions, this detailed readiness and data security analysis specifically identifies pre-existing issues related to Gen AI integration, and offers a targeted approach to identifying and mitigating risks associated with enabling Microsoft Copilot and other AI agents. This specificity, combined with a fast setup and comprehensive reporting, makes it a first-of-its-kind service tailored to the emerging challenges of AI in the workplace.  “Symmetry’s solution zeroes in on the critical challenge organizations face with adoption of AI Agents: the longstanding, overlooked exposure of vast quantities of sensitive data through platforms like OneDrive and SharePoint.”  said Claude Mandy, Chief Evangelist at Symmetry. “By proactively addressing the security risks tied to this data, Symmetry enables faster AI adoption with security at the forefront,” said the former Gartner analyst and Financial Services CISO.

“The rapid adoption of AI in the workplace, with a significant increase in businesses integrating AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for productivity, highlights a burgeoning market – and the ease of enabling Copilot makes it deceptively easy. However, this comes with the challenge of ensuring data security. Something that we and our customers take seriously. ” said Dr. Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems.

Symmetry Systems’ new Gen AI inventory feature enables organizations to precisely identify and assess the usage of various generative AI models, including but not limited to LLaMA, LLaMA2, Falcon, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Haystack, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Mistral, Mixtral, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, PGVector, and FAISS. This expansive inventory ensures that businesses can comprehensively understand their AI landscape and secure their deployments against potential vulnerabilities.

With these new features, organizations can now ensure that their use of emerging and diverse AI models is not only optimized for productivity but also secured against data breaches and poisoning of the data models, setting a new standard in responsible AI deployment. “AI agents like Copilot represent a force of nature in the technology landscape. Enterprises cannot afford to ignore it,” said Dr. Anand Singh, Global CISO and an expert on cybersecurity implications in regulated verticals of Healthcare and Finance. “Symmetry’s new Gen AI product line helps organizations navigate this terrain wisely by understanding the nature of data integrated into shared AI models and ensuring robust safeguards against poisoning of the models,” said Dr Singh.

To see Symmetry’s Data+AI Security Product line for Enterprise Gen AI in action, request your own copilot readiness assessment to get started.

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“As regulatory requirements for document management are becoming increasingly stringent, having an OCR image analyzer is a critical data security capability for all businesses,” said Dr. Mohit Tiwari, CEO of Symmetry Systems. “By enabling the identification of sensitive and regulated documents, this advancement furthers our mission of helping organizations meet compliance standards more effectively and while improving their data security posture.”

Symmetry Systems’ modern approach to data classification continues into its new OCR capabilities. Recognizing that OCR can be both time-consuming and resource-intensive, Symmetry offers a solution that is not only efficient but also tailored to the unique needs of each client. Where other solutions rely solely on existing metadata, Symmetry Systems works closely with clients to strategically deploy OCR where it provides the most value, focusing on reducing data risks and enhancing classification based on existing metadata and context.

Additional key features and benefits include:

• Enhanced Data Discovery and Visibility: Symmetry’s OCR capability provides businesses with enhanced visibility into their data stores, revealing critical images and information that were previously challenging to access.
• Improved Data Security and Compliance Posture: With the ability to identify sensitive information within images and PDFs, Symmetry’s OCR technology allows businesses to identify potential data security and compliance issues.
• Efficient Data Management: By automating the evaluation, tagging, and metadata enforcement of images, Symmetry’s OCR technology streamlines data retrieval and processing. This efficiency not only saves time but also significantly reduces the risk associated with improperly secured or non-compliant data.

To learn more about Symmetry Systems Optical Character Recognition, OCR image analyzer data security within AWS and hybrid cloud, visit the website here.

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