Secure the AI Making Decisions Inside Your Business
Introduction Artificial intelligence is no longer limited to generating reports, answering customer questions, or helping employees find information. AI systems are increasingly making decisions that directly influence business operations. They may approve or reject transactions, identify potential fraud, prioritize customers, recommend products, assess risks, screen applications, automate support decisions, and determine which actions should happen next. This shift creates a new cybersecurity challenge: what happens when the AI making important decisions becomes the target of an attack? Traditional cybersecurity focuses on protecting applications, networks, databases, endpoints, and users. But AI introduces another critical layer — the decision-making system itself . An AI model can be manipulated through malicious inputs, compromised data, insecure integrations, unauthorized access, or poorly controlled automated actions. If an attacker influences the AI, they may not need to d...