AU-B-01Level 1 · Signal
Uses unauthorized AI tools
A risky Behavior signal from the SaaS gateway (SSE, ai.tool.unauthorized): this person used a generative AI service outside the sanctioned list.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- 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
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- ID.AM-02
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1567
The definition, in detail
Definition
Prompts and uploads to it leave the organization's logging, retention and contract terms.
Example
A contracts manager pastes a draft agreement into a free AI chat site to shorten it; the proxy logs the upload against her account.
How it is measured
- Source
- Web, CASB & DLP
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- ai.tool.unauthorized
- Risk domain
- AI use
- Provenance
- Gartner, Verizon DBIR
How it is used
Programs count "Uses unauthorized AI tools" per person from Web, CASB & DLP and read it beside the other AI use signals; it feeds 1 cohort, 1 sequence and 1 breach scenario.
A "uses unauthorized AI tools" event is evidence of behavior under pressure. It is one observed action, and on its own it is no proof of compromise.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Library indicators
The detailed observations in the indicator library with the same risk domain, dimension and polarity as this signal.
- I.0103Copies enterprise data into personal AI chat tools
- I.0155Processes source code with unapproved AI services
- I.0164Visits websites categorized as AI tools
- I.0437Inputs secrets into AI prompts
- I.0438Submits enterprise data to unmanaged AI platforms
- I.0439Inputs proprietary code into AI tools
- I.0440Inputs customer PII into AI tools
- I.0441Inputs sensitive HR or legal content into AI tools
- I.0442Exposes sensitive prompts during live sessions
- I.0443Uses unapproved AI applications
- I.0444Uses personal AI accounts for work
- I.0445Authorizes AI use outside job scope
- I.0446Implements AI-generated code without validation
- I.0447Sends unverified AI responses to customers
- I.0448Uses AI to craft manipulative or misleading content
- I.0449Inputs third-party copyrighted content into AI
- I.0450Attempts to bypass AI safety controls
- I.0451Employs AI jailbreak techniques
- I.0452Probes AI models to extract training data
- I.0453Persists with unsafe AI prompting
- I.0454Deploys unvetted open-source AI models
- I.0455Disregards enterprise AI policies
- I.0456Accepts AI outputs without validation
Continue exploring
"Uses unauthorized AI tools" (AU-B-01), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/au-b-01-uses-unauthorized-ai-tools
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The initial assessment
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