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Recognize and mitigate risks to sensitive data

Recognize and mitigate risks to sensitive data

From the course: Microsoft AI Business Professional (AB-730) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

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Recognize and mitigate risks to sensitive data

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It's important to consider how we handle sensitive data when using Copilot. One immediate concern is what users type into Copilot. The prompt itself can contain sensitive information. For example, an employee might copy-paste a spreadsheet of salaries or a list of customer contact details into Copilot to get an e-mail summary or an e-mail drafted. Once you do that, all those details become part of Copilot's processing, and the AI is going to use them to generate a response. And it might even include some of those specifics in its output. So for instance, mentioning a particular salary or customer's name if you asked it. And so that means there's a risk of leaking sensitive data via the AI, because if then the user shares or sends the AI's output without realizing it contains confidential tidbits from the prompt, it could accidentally expose information. And moreover, prompts and outputs might be stored for auditing, meaning there's a record of that sensitive data moving through the…

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