As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly relevant, the mandate to prioritize data security has never been more pronounced in the enterprise. However, artificial intelligence for IT operations is introducing new threat vectors for malicious actors to infiltrate networks, steal crucial data and proliferate ransomware. How can companies approach the delicate task of balancing efficient cloud operations with cybersecurity for AI?
“Today we have these cloud products, two amazing products customers can choose from,” said Billy Spears (pictured), chief information security officer of Teradata Corp. “And inside of that, we’ve built things like threat models. That’s all the behind-the-scenes risks. We think about it so you don’t have to. Then what we do is take that information and we build things in with all kinds of application security testing. We start from the open-source testing; we bring it in on a static environment. Once we’re ready to go to production, we have [a] runtime environment.”
Spears spoke …