Security Insights
Deep dives into Shadow AI, PII protection, and the future of secure LLM adoption.
The Generative AI Risks Accounting Firms Need to Manage
Learn the key generative AI risks accounting firms need to manage, including client data exposure, inaccurate outputs, automation bias, and vendor risk.
How PII Redaction Makes Legal Documents Safer to Use with AI
Learn how PII redaction can make legal documents safer for AI by removing unnecessary identifiers while preserving the context lawyers actually need.
How to Protect Client Data While Still Getting Value from AI
Learn how accounting firms can protect client data when using AI through data minimization, approved tools, limited integrations, retention rules, and human review.
Generative AI Risks for Tax Teams and How to Reduce Them
Learn the main generative AI risks tax teams face, including taxpayer data exposure, inaccurate answers, automation bias, shadow AI, and vendor risk.
How to Audit AI Model Governance Without Overcomplicating It
Learn how to audit AI model governance by reviewing inventories, ownership, approved use, validation, change management, monitoring, and evidence.
Does Using ChatGPT Put Attorney-Client Privilege at Risk?
Does using ChatGPT put attorney-client privilege at risk? Learn what lawyers should review before sharing privileged or confidential information with AI.
Tax Data Privacy: Keeping Client Information Out of AI Prompts
Learn how tax teams can protect taxpayer data when using AI through data minimization, limited file uploads, retention controls, and safer integrations.
AI Vendor Due Diligence Questions for Audit Firms
Use these AI vendor due diligence questions to assess data handling, security, reliability, third parties, incidents, and product changes before approval.
Sanitized Ai Joins the NVIDIA Inception Program
Sanitized Ai has been accepted into NVIDIA Inception, NVIDIA's program for AI startups. Here is what membership gives us, and why it matters for the detection that keeps sensitive data out of AI tools.
ChatGPT for Accountants: What Is Safe to Share?
What can accountants safely share with ChatGPT? Learn how to handle client data, financial records, personal information, files, and confidential business details.
Is ChatGPT Safe for Confidential Business Information?
Is ChatGPT safe for confidential information? Learn how account type, retention, data minimization, and company policies affect whether business data should be shared.
Can Lawyers Use ChatGPT? Practical Rules for Safer Use
Can lawyers use ChatGPT? Learn practical rules for confidentiality, client communication, verification, approved tools, and safer AI use in legal practice.
ChatGPT Data Privacy: Answers to the Questions Employees Actually Ask
Clear answers to common ChatGPT data privacy questions about training, deleted chats, file uploads, memory, work accounts, and confidential data.
AI in Tax: Useful Applications and Hidden Data Risks
Explore useful applications of AI in tax and the hidden risks involving taxpayer data, inaccurate answers, file uploads, third parties, and professional judgment.
AI Data Loss Prevention: A Practical Guide for Security Teams
A practical guide to AI data loss prevention, including what to monitor, what to block, and how security teams can protect sensitive data at work.
AI in Auditing: Where It Helps and Where It Creates Risk
Explore where AI can improve audit work, from data analysis to planning, and where it creates risks involving evidence, bias, confidentiality, and oversight.
Does ChatGPT Train on Company Data? A Plain-English Guide
Does ChatGPT train on company data? Learn how business and personal accounts differ, what “no training” really means, and what employees should check.
AI in Accounting: Real Benefits, Real Privacy Risks
Explore the real benefits of AI in accounting and the privacy risks firms need to manage when using client data, financial records, and AI-generated output.
AI Data Privacy: What Companies Need to Know Before Employees Use AI Tools
A practical guide to AI data privacy, including what employees should avoid sharing, how to evaluate AI tools, and how to build safer workplace rules.
Quebec Law 25 and Generative AI: Where Prompt Data Quietly Creates Liability
Every prompt that carries a client's name, a SIN, or a health detail into a public AI tool is a disclosure of personal information. Under Quebec Law 25, that disclosure can carry consequences most organizations never planned for.
ChatGPT for Law Firms: Useful Tool or Confidentiality Risk?
Learn how law firms can use ChatGPT more safely while protecting client confidentiality, privilege, sensitive documents, and professional obligations.
The AI Controls Investors Now Probe in Technical Diligence
Technical diligence used to stop at your codebase and cloud posture. Now investors ask how your engineers use AI, because an uncontrolled prompt can quietly move your crown-jewel IP outside your control before the deal closes.
What Is Shadow AI, and Why Are Security Teams Worried About It?
Learn what shadow AI is, why employees use unapproved AI tools, what risks it creates, and how organizations can respond without simply banning AI.
AI in Patent Prosecution: Keeping Pre-Filing Inventions Out of Public LLMs
Pasting a pre-filing invention into ChatGPT can put the novelty a patent depends on at risk — and it can't be undone. Why bans fail and what a prosecution practice should control instead.
What IBM's 2025 Breach Data Says About the Real Cost of Shadow AI
IBM's 2025 breach report puts a number on Shadow AI: breaches involving it cost roughly $670K more, and almost no affected organization had controls to stop sensitive data at the point of entry. Here is what that means for the board.
Shadow AI in Clinical Workflows: The Blind Spot EMR Security Misses
Your EMR is locked down, audited, and access-controlled. But the browser tab beside it isn't. When clinicians and admins paste PHI into public AI tools, patient data leaves through a door your health IT security never watched.
What the CPA Confidentiality Duty Means When Client Data Meets Generative AI
Your professional code binds you to keep client financial information confidential. But the moment a staff accountant pastes a return into a public AI tool, that duty is already in jeopardy.
Let Your Engineers Keep AI Velocity Without Leaking Source Code
The engineers closest to your crown-jewel IP are the ones most likely to paste source code into AI. Here's how to keep their velocity without letting a single prompt weaken your trade-secret position.
Answering the Client AI-Security Questionnaire: What Outside Counsel Needs to Show
Clients now send law firms AI-security questionnaires before handing over sensitive matters. The ones asking how you protect their data in AI tools want evidence, not assurances. Here's what a credible answer looks like.
What a Partner Owes When an Articling Student Pastes a Client File Into AI
An articling student pastes a client file into ChatGPT to speed up a memo. The partner signs the work and carries the risk. Here is what supervisory duty actually requires when juniors use AI.
What the Duty of Technological Competence Now Requires When Your Firm Uses ChatGPT
Law societies expect lawyers to understand the technology they use. When an articling student pastes a client's file into ChatGPT, that duty is no longer abstract — it's a disclosure you can't recall.
Why Banning ChatGPT Doesn't Work, and What Actually Reduces Shadow AI Risk
Blocking ChatGPT at the firewall feels decisive, but it just pushes AI use onto personal phones and accounts you can't see. Here's why bans backfire and what reduces Shadow AI risk instead.
Keeping PHI Out of LLM Prompts Under PHIPA and Bill C-27
Clinicians and researchers paste patient details into AI tools to save time, but PHI submitted to a public model can't be recalled. Here's how to keep it from leaving in the first place.
Keeping Client Tax Returns Out of ChatGPT During Busy Season
During busy season, an overloaded associate pastes a client's return into ChatGPT to summarize it faster. The client's SIN and income just left your firm's control, and it can't be recalled.
Your Valuation Is Your IP, and It Can Leave One Paste at a Time
For deep-tech and biotech companies, the balance sheet is the technology. When an engineer pastes source code or a draft claim into a public AI tool, the value backing your next round can quietly walk out the door.
How One Careless AI Prompt Can Waive Privilege
A single prompt pasted into a public AI tool can strip privilege or break confidentiality on a client's matter. Early court rulings show the disclosure is voluntary — and irreversible. Here's how firms are closing the gap.
How to Get Visibility Into Shadow AI Without Banning Every Tool
You can't govern what you can't see, and most organizations have no visibility into nearly 90% of their AI usage. Here's how to get that visibility without driving employees to personal accounts.
Your DLP Can't See the Prompt Box
Your DLP stack watches files, email, and downloads. The most revealing data in your company now leaves through a text box those controls were never built to read.
Sanitized Ai is Officially Live on Chrome and Edge
Sanitized Ai is now available on the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons store. Get real-time visibility into what your employees are sharing with AI platforms.
Canada Just Told OpenAI Its Training Data Practices Broke Privacy Law. Here's What That Means for Every Organization Using AI.
Canada's privacy regulators found OpenAI's original ChatGPT training practices violated privacy laws. Learn why this finding matters for your organization and how to address the hidden risks of employee AI usage.
Why Your AI Acceptable Use Policy Probably Isn't Working
Most organizations rolled out an AI acceptable use policy sometime in the last 18 months. Most of them aren't working, and the reason isn't what people think.
The Opt-Out Illusion: Why Turning Off AI Training Doesn't Make Your Data Safe
Turning off AI training doesn't mean your data is safe. Understand why 'don't train on our data' is a narrow promise, and why you need upstream controls to prevent data leaks.
US Cyber Defense Chief Falls Victim to Shadow AI
Even top cyber officials are not immune. Learn how a simple mistake led to a government data spill and how to protect your organization.