AI Data Security
Apply AI guardrails to control what sensitive data AI can reach, use, and expose.
Overview
Beyond Traditional AI Security
Lightbeam inspects AI interactions in real time, connects them to the Data Identity Graph, and takes action to block, redact, remediate, or audit sensitive data exposure.
The Lightbeam Advantage
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Real-Time AI Data Security
Inspect AI prompts, files, responses, and attachments, then block, redact, warn, allow, or audit based on policy.
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Data Identity Graph Context
Understand whose sensitive data is involved, who or what can access it, and whether that AI use is allowed by policy.
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Automated Risk Reduction Actions
Revoke risky access, minimize exposed data, and reduce the AI risk surface automatically.
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Petabyte-Scale AI Governance
Continuously monitor and govern all sensitive data in the enterprise across structured and unstructured data environments.
Traditional Industry Approach
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AI Traffic Visibility
Many tools monitor prompts or applications without understanding sensitive data involved.
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Limited Data Context
Teams see alerts or recommendations, but must manually fix access, sharing, retention, and exposure risks.
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Findings Without Remediation
Teams see alerts or recommendations, but must manually fix access, sharing, retention, and exposure risks.
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Limited Enterprise Scale
Tools often rely on sampling or become cost-prohibitive when monitoring sensitive data continuously across petabyte-scale environments.
Key Capabilities That Set Lightbeam AI Data Security Apart
Block Sensitive Data to GenAI Platforms
Lightbeam helps prevent sensitive customer, employee, partner, patient, client, and IP data from being shared with unauthorized GenAI tools. Teams can apply policies that alert or block based on data type, sensitivity, destination, user, agent, and risk.
Monitor Prompts, Responses, and Attached Files
Lightbeam provides visibility into sensitive data in prompts, responses, screenshots, and files attached to AI conversations across GenAI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, Perplexity, and other AI tools.
Classify and Label Data for AI Use
Lightbeam discovers, classifies, and labels sensitive data so organizations can decide what should be included, restricted, or excluded from AI workflows. It can distinguish sensitive vs non-sensitive data, real vs synthetic data, and entity types such as customer, employee, partner, patient, or client data.
Enforce AI Governance Policies
Lightbeam helps enforce AI-specific policies by who is sharing the information, what data is involved, where it is going, and what action should be taken. Teams can set policies by user, agent, attribute, classification, sensitivity, entity profile, AI app destination, and tolerance threshold.
Business Outcomes That Help Enterprises Adopt AI Safely
Reduce AI Data Exposure
Control what sensitive data can be uploaded, retrieved, attached, or exposed through GenAI tools, copilots, and agents.
Get a DemoControl Shadow AI Risk
Detect and block unauthorized AI use before sensitive data leaves company control.
Learn moreProtect Approved AI Projects
Secure sensitive data used by approved AI tools, RAG workflows, copilots, and agents.
Learn MoreCreate AI Policy Audit Evidence
See what was allowed or blocked, who prompted it, when it happened, and what sensitive data was involved.
Our PlatformPrepare Data for AI Ingestion
Classify, label, and minimize sensitive data so AI uses right data, not all data.
AI Security
2026 SANS AI Survey Insights
Based on insights from 536 global IT and security professionals and dozens of senior cyber leaders, this report details how organizations are navigating the transition from testing AI to deploying it at scale.
What customers say about DSPM with Lightbeam
“Lightbeam gives us the ability to scan, classify, categorize, and label data so we can ensure that data does not go into areas it does not need to, including AI models.”
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
How is AI Data Security different from traditional AI security tools?
Traditional AI security tools often focus on models, prompts, or applications. Lightbeam focuses on sensitive data AI can reach, use, and expose, then applies guardrails based on identity, sensitivity, access, business purpose, destination, and risk.
AI Data Exposure Starts Before the First Prompt. Here’s How to Prevent ItCan Lightbeam help block unauthorized AI use?
Yes. Lightbeam helps monitor, alert, and block sensitive data going to unauthorized GenAI platforms based on policies for users, agents, data types, destinations, and risk thresholds.
Read our AI Security BrochureHow does Lightbeam protect approved AI tools and agents?
Lightbeam discovers and classifies sensitive data, maps it to identity/access context, labels it for AI governance, and helps enforce least privilege so approved AI tools and agents use the right data safely.
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