How to mitigate the risk from AI-generated apps built by your 'citizen coder' employees
AI tools let non-technical employees build workplace apps in minutes with natural language prompts. While these AI-generated apps boost productivity, they can create severe security and data risks. As Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off, we’re sharing how Tenable adopted a structured governance framework that allows our “citizen coders” to build secure and compliant apps with AI. Key takeaways Unsanctioned applications that non-technical staff build using AI tools often bypass quality assurance and testing, creating shadow AI risks. Without IT and security oversight, these applications can go into use with critical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, as well as weak data protection. E
- Vendor
- Tenable
- Product
- Nessus / Tenable.io / Security Center
- Exposure class
- Network management
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- Product class: network management
- Threat research
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- Tenable Research (tenable.com)