Guardrails on AI tools like ChatGPT needed to protect secrets, CISOs say

LAS VEGAS — Walmart, Amazon and Microsoft have all reportedly issued warnings to employees about avoiding sharing corporate secrets or proprietary code when querying generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT — and a CISO panel held May 30 at CyberRisk Alliance’s Identiverse conference in Las Vegas suggests that many companies have been considering the same.

A large contingent of the audience — roughly half, by quick visual count — raised their hands when moderator Parham Eftekhari, executive vice president of collaboration at the CyberRisk Alliance, asked how many…