Securing the AI Era: You’re One Paste Away from Tomorrow’s Headline
Seda Teber just told 400 CISOs the truth: shadow AI runs your company, insiders cause 1 in 5 breaches, hotel guest lists are one paste away from disaster — and Purview fixes it in 72 hours
The EMEA Tech Brief yesterday was packed with strong speakers, but Seda Teber’s segment on data security for AI is the one everyone is still quoting in the corridors and Slack channels today. With headlines screaming that Donald Trump is being sued to release FBI training videos on how to find, flag, and redact his name in the Epstein files, we all wonder what AI-powered tools—like those in Microsoft Purview—could have streamlined that redaction process without the drama. Here are the moments that mattered:
The question every single customer asks her “Every organization I meet wants to know how do we move fast with AI without losing control of our data.” Seda made it clear: speed without data governance is just a faster way to a breach.
The four statistics that landed like punches 95 % of organisations have an AI strategy → 75 % of knowledge workers already use AI daily → 80 %+ of leaders will add digital labour soon → more than 1 billion AI agents expected globally in the coming years. Her line: “We are becoming human-led, agent-operated, AI-amplified organisations.”
The new perimeter is no longer the endpoint “We are no longer defending just endpoints and identities — we must also protect prompts, models, plugins and AI orchestration layers.” This one sentence instantly made half the room rethink their entire architecture.
The 78 % shadow-AI reality check “Our Work Trend Index shows that 78 % of AI users bring their own AI tools to work — often outside IT governance.” Shadow AI is now the default, not the exception.
The garage analogy everyone immediately stolen by three CISOs I know “Think of your data set like a garage full of unlabeled boxes — if you can’t see what’s inside, you won’t notice when something is missing.” Simple, painful, unforgettable.
The scariest new insider threat “A well-meaning user might paste confidential content into AI chat just with good intentions to save time.” Combined with oversharing and departing employees, insiders are still the cause of one in five breaches.
The Contoso demo that made the point real Dimitrios later walked through the famous Contoso scenario: an employee accidentally pastes tomorrow’s VIP guest list (names, passports, room preferences, credit-card tokens) into ChatGPT. Purview’s Endpoint DLP blocked it instantly, sensitivity labels prevented Copilot from summarising over-permissive files, and DSPM for AI flagged the risky sharing before it ever left the tenant. Replace “project files” with “hotel reservations” and every hospitality attendee in the room felt personally attacked.
Purview help discover risks you did not know existed “Microsoft Purview brings together data security, governance and compliance in one integrated platform… extends those protections into Copilot, Copilot Studio and 3rd-party AI apps.” 72-hour agentless onboarding → adaptive protection → AI-powered investigations with Security Copilot.
The closing line now on half the LinkedIn posts in EMEA “The data is the foundation of trusted AI and strong data security is what makes that possible.”
So how do you move fast without losing control? Simple: make security and data governance the very first step of your AI project, not the last. Turn on Purview from Day Zero and you’ll go faster — and safer — than everyone who’s still adding it as an afterthought.
The companies that do this are already ahead.
The rest are just waiting for their data leak to make the news.
Your move: aka.ms/purview-trial
(And yes, the same tools that block hotel guest lists would have redacted those Epstein files in hours instead of years.)