CR-AU-01Level 2 · Cohort
Shadow AI with sensitive data
- Risky
- Easy
- AI use
- Level 2 · Cohort
People who use unauthorized AI tools and have put sensitive data into an AI prompt.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Cohort class
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- Risky
- Difficulty
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- Easy
A cohort is Easy when every one of its signals is available from standard connectors, Medium when any signal needs setup and none needs an integration or a survey, and Hard when any signal needs an integration or a survey.
- Dimensions Every signal answers one of 3 questions.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0 (from its signals)
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- ID.AM-02
- PR.DS-10
- MITRE ATT&CK (from its signals)
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- T1567
The definition, in detail
Definition
The tool sits outside the organization's contracts, so the prompt is a data transfer to a party nobody vetted.
Example
A legal assistant pasted a draft settlement agreement into a consumer chatbot to summarize it.
How it is measured
- Formula
- AU-B-01 + AU-B-02
- Class
- Risky
- Difficulty
- Easy: every signal is available from standard connectors
- Risk domain
- AI use
- Sources
- Web, CASB & DLP
How it is used
Programs count the people who match AU-B-01 + AU-B-02 at once as a risky cohort in AI use, trend that population, and point the response at it; it feeds 1 breach scenario.
Membership is evidence that the signals in the formula describe the same person at once. It is a population to act on; on its own it confirms no incident.
Continue exploring
"Shadow AI with sensitive data" (CR-AU-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/cohorts/cr-au-01-shadow-ai-with-sensitive-data
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one cohort.
The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.