Trend Micro announced on Sunday that it is collaborating with Nvidia to create new cybersecurity tools using artificial intelligence. These tools aim to protect data centers where AI work occurs.
Trend Micro plans to showcase these tools at the Computex conference in Taiwan. Designed to run on Nvidia’s chips, the tools can detect intruders and ensure that only authorized users can access the data.
Many businesses train AI systems to help employees with tasks like answering HR questions or assisting customer service agents. However, gathering data from across the business into one place makes these systems attractive targets for hackers.
“They work their way into the enterprise and they find this massive honeypot of information,” Trend Micro Chief Operating Officer Kevin Simzer told Reuters.
In addition to detecting intruders, Trend Micro will also focus on ensuring that data fed into AI systems remains secure from hackers. For most modern chatbots, users interact by asking questions, which often contain sensitive information, such as undisclosed corporate secrets or private customer data.
“They’re often narrowing the scope of (a chatbot’s responses) by giving some very, very specific information,” Simzer said of the use of AI prompts. “That’s what we’re going to be looking for and making sure that we see it first and we can make sure that it doesn’t go any further” than the people and applications authorized to see it, Simzer said.
