How many people are sharing confidential data with shadow AI tools?
Do your users understand the risks and how to use AI safely?
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Shared Links (weekly) June 22, 2025
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Worth Reading – New OneDrive Prompt Could Mix Work and Personal Files
There are obvious data privacy risks here. Sometimes, I forget that not everyone works in the legal industry and is hyper-aware of confidentiality and data privacy, the way you are when that is your firm’s business, but this is not one of those times. Every business, including Microsoft, would be unhappy if a user synced company data into their consumer OneDrive account.
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Linked – Two ways AI hype is worsening the cybersecurity skills crisis
The pressure to become AI experts and make the organization’s rollout of AI tools secure only adds more mental load to already overloaded cybersecurity professionals.
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Linked – Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
As I have said before, if your data is stored somewhere outside your control, it’s only a matter of time before it gets hacked. Your AI assistant will have a lot of private information, making it a prime target.
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Never Assume Searches Are Accurate Without Verifying
Technology, especially M365 technology, changes all the time. It’s vast and complicated, and things get broken when new versions are rolled out. When dealing with eDiscovery, security, privacy, etc., we have to stay on top of those changes to understand new features and ensure the old ones still work the same way.
Don’t assume the old ones will always work the same way. I can tell you from this and plenty of other experiences they often don’t.
