Prepare data for AI readiness

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Educational institutions are adopting AI to enhance solutions and develop innovative skills. Successful AI transformation requires prioritizing security. Microsoft offers comprehensive AI security, helping organizations prepare for secure AI use, identify risks, protect data, and comply with regulations.

Data security challenges

Protecting education AI systems and data from digital attacks, unauthorized access, damage, or theft presents different challenges than traditional cybersecurity due to the dynamic nature of AI models. Key challenges include the integrity of the AI model and its training data, Responsible AI (RAI) issues, adversarial AI attacks, and the risk of AI model theft.

Familiarize yourself with some of the more common AI data security threats.

  • AI jailbreak: Exploits vulnerabilities to bypass safety protocols and generate unauthorized content.
  • Model poisoning: Tampers the model architecture, training code, or hyperparameters.
  • Availability attacks: Disrupts the availability of a system by contaminating its data during training.
  • AI prompt injection: Tricks AI models with malicious prompts, altering their expected behavior.
  • Data poisoning: Injects bad data into the training pool, altering AI model training.
  • Data exfiltration: Transfers AI models or training data, potentially leading to data breaches or compromised models.

Address the challenges

Schools face numerous cybersecurity challenges, but Microsoft's unified security platform offers robust protection for AI data, apps, and models. Microsoft Security helps:

  • Identify and secure sensitive data, both structured and unstructured, across on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Implement advanced security measures to thwart sophisticated attacks.
  • Monitor user interactions with data to detect insider risks early.
  • Prevent data leakage and data exfiltration through comprehensive security protocols.

With Microsoft Purview, you can effectively discover, protect, and govern your data, ensuring its security through its entire lifecycle.