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What Is GenAI Data Security?

A concise concept explainer with related MaskFlare security context.
Related concepts
  • AI submissions
  • Sensitive data
  • DLP policy

GenAI data security is the practice of inspecting and controlling what sensitive data gets submitted to external generative AI tools, extending data loss prevention into a channel — a chat input box — that most DLP products were never built to see.

The risk isn't the AI tool itself; it's that pasting a customer record or a piece of source code into a chat interface leaves an organization's control the same way an email attachment would, without triggering any of the policies written for attachments.

MaskFlare Vault inspects content submitted to external AI tools under the same policy engine that already covers email and file uploads.

Where MaskFlare handles this