Introducing AI Shield: Always-On AI Risk Defense

Today, we announced AI Shield – Varonis’ always-on AI defense that continuously identifies AI risks in real time, flags active violations, and automatically fixes issues before they become data breaches.

In organizations with poor data security posture, employees and AI agents are only one action away from accessing troves of data they should never have had access to in the first place. 
Varonis AI Shield continuously analyzes your AI security posture, monitors how AI interacts with data, and dynamically right-sizes permissions so that sensitive information isn’t exposed due to poor data security hygiene.

AI Shield makes intelligent decisions about which data to restrict from AI using Varonis’ patented permissions recommendation algorithms that factor in data sensitivity, staleness, user profile, and more. Even if you haven’t right-sized access, AI Shield has you covered.

Always-on AI Risk Defense

With Varonis AI Shield, customers have always-on defense to ensure the secure use of AI, including:

• Real-time risk analysis to show you exactly which sensitive data is exposed to AI
• Automated risk remediation to continually eliminate data exposure at scale
• Behavior-based threat detection to identify abnormal or malicious behavior
• 24x7x365 alert response to investigate, contain, and stop data threats

Real-time Risk Analysis

Not only does AI Shield show where data is potentially at risk or exposed, it also shows exactly when sensitive data is being unnecessarily accessed and the actions that violate policy – down to the specific prompts and responses.

Consider a marketing user with accidental access to sensitive R&D plans. The user has never touched that data before and doesn’t realize they have access, but an innocent Copilot prompt exposes the files to the marketer during a conversation. Most organizations would never know this breach happened. With AI Shield, Varonis will flag this interaction and remove access.

Security teams can drill down to see which prompts are surfacing sensitive data, track overexposure metrics, and evaluate policy violations. They can also effortlessly eliminate future risk via automated remediation policies that run continuously in the background to remove risky access before a prompt can abuse it.

Automated Risk Remediation

On top of seeing dynamic exposure, organizations need to be able to eliminate it, without breaking the business. Because Varonis has insight into data activity, we know who needs access to data and who doesn’t and can eliminate unnecessary access at scale, automatically. This always-on remediation is essential for AI defense as new data is constantly being created, shared, and exposed.

Intelligent threat detection

Varonis monitors all AI prompts and responses for potential threats. We use sophisticated behavioral analytics to detect deviations to normal behavior, malicious intent, and known threat activity.

24x7x365 alert response

Our 24x7x365 Managed Data Detection and Response (MDDR) team manages and investigates all these alerts on behalf of our customers, escalating to them only the true threats. Varonis augments our expert human analysts with AI-powered investigation capabilities, allowing them to effectively prioritize and stop true threats faster than any human could manually.

Safely Implement AI with Varonis AI Shield

AI is everywhere. Copilots, chatbots, and agents help employees boost productivity and creativity. But those powerful tools run on data and can inadvertently or purposely be used to expose and even exfiltrate sensitive information. The average company creates thousands of prompts each day, any one of which could potentially lead to a data breach.

AI Shield helps your employees use AI without putting data at risk. Always on AI risk defense ensures that security teams know exactly where data is at risk and can effortlessly secure it with automated policies and threat detection.