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AU-B-02Level 1 · Signal

Puts sensitive data in AI prompts

A risky Behavior signal from the DLP layer (SSE, ai.prompt.sensitive.data): a prompt or upload from this person to an AI tool matched a sensitive-data rule: customer records, source code or credentials.

Classification

Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
Dimension Every signal answers one of 3 questions.
Subject Who or what a signal is about: person, AI agent, vendor and organization.
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
  • PR.DS-10
MITRE ATT&CK
  • T1567

The definition, in detail

Definition

A third party now stores that data.

Example

A support engineer pastes a customer's full ticket, including the account number and address, into an AI assistant to draft a reply; DLP matches the pattern.

How it is measured

Subject
Person
Event
ai.prompt.sensitive.data
Risk domain
AI use
Provenance
Gartner, Verizon DBIR

How it is used

Programs count "Puts sensitive data in AI prompts" per person from Web, CASB & DLP and read it beside the other AI use signals; it feeds 1 cohort, 1 sequence and 2 breach scenarios.

A "puts sensitive data in AI prompts" event is evidence of behavior under pressure. It is one observed action, and on its own it is no proof of compromise.

Technical mappings

NIST CSF 2.0
PR.DS-10
MITRE ATT&CK
T1567

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.

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Cite this term

"Puts sensitive data in AI prompts" (AU-B-02), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/au-b-02-puts-sensitive-data-in-ai-prompts

Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.

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