Why do you need IBM Guardium Exposure Manager?
To increase productivity, employees can use authorized or unauthorized AI tools that can leak corporate data. Traditional data loss prevention (DLP) solutions either allow or block data sharing without considering the context and origin of the data. IBM® Guardium® Exposure Manager solves this data security issue by classifying data based on the origin of every file, where it is shared, and the defined policy for the endpoint of the data.
What IBM Guardium Exposure Manager does
- Tracks and protects invisible data flows through AI
- Organizations cannot trace which sensitive data feeds AI systems or how data transforms through retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, embeddings, and model inference. Traditional DLP solutions monitor file transfers and network traffic but cannot track data through AI transformations. In the AI era, data transforms at machine speed through vector databases, RAG pipelines, and content generation.
- Detects and traces endpoint data exposure
- Employees download corporate data and share it through Slack, AI chatbots, or personal cloud storage. AI applications create derivative files containing sensitive data with no connection between endpoint activity and source data stores. Traditional DLP can see files leaving devices but cannot trace them back to source systems or understand AI context.
- Tracks data across disconnected tools
- Traditional DLP monitors endpoints but cannot trace data back to source systems. AI security tools monitor models but cannot track data to endpoints. Traditional tools provide no unified view of data movement across workloads and the workforce.
- Provides generative AI summaries of technical actions
- IBM Guardium Exposure Manager provides generative AI (gen AI) functionality that summarizes the business value of technical actions and helps generate reports.