As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to proliferate, AI trust, risk, and security management (AI TRiSM) has become the emerging technological trend that ensures AI governance, compliance, and data protection. AI TRiSM incorporates solutions and techniques to tackle AI-specific challenges, including model interpretability and explainability, algorithmic bias, model operations, data privacy, AI data protection, and cyberattacks.

BigID provides a unified solution to help organizations harness the full potential of AI by implementing AI TRiSM with a comprehensive approach to discovery, classification, risk analysis, and remediation to ensure compliance and security. Enterprises can consistently scale their AI programs with a foundation of AI governance, data protection, and regulatory compliance built on trust, governance, and intelligent automation.

What is AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (TRiSM)?

AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM) is a framework designed to streamline responsible AI development and deployment by addressing trust, risk, bias, compliance, privacy, and security within the AI lifecycle. AI TRiSM focuses on the following key areas:

  1. AI Trust – Ensuring transparency, fairness, and explainability in AI decision-making.
  2. AI Risk Management – Identifying and mitigating potential risks such as bias, security vulnerabilities, and ethical concerns.
  3. AI Security – Protecting AI models, training data, and outputs from threats such as adversarial attacks, exfiltrations, and data breaches.
  4. AI Governance & Compliance – Aligning AI practices with industry regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, EU AI Act, and emerging AI governance laws.

The 4 Pillars and Principles of AI TRiSM

According to Gartner, who coined the term, AI TRiSM developed the four pillars to ensure an AI model’s governance, trustworthiness, fairness, robustness, efficiency, and data protection:

  1. Explainability and Model Monitoring: How AI models process information and make decisions to ensure they are trusted, transparent, and accountable. Models are regularly monitored to verify they continue functioning as intended without introducing biases.
  2. Model Operations: How AI models are refined, tested, and updated throughout the development and deployment lifecycle, which includes developing processes and systems for managing AI models.
  3. AI Application Security: How to secure AI applications and their data from cyber attacks, insider threats, and vulnerabilities, which requires encrypting model data and implementing access controls.
  4. Model Privacy: How AI models adhere to data governance practices and protect sensitive information, which have ethical and legal implications if not adequately addressed. Organizations must inform users and collect consent to ensure compliance with existing and emerging data protection regulations.
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Why AI TRiSM is Imperative

Organizations that embrace the AI TRiSM framework will gain insight into designing, developing, and deploying AI models. AI TRiSM helps to identify, monitor, and reduce risks tied to using AI technologies, such as Generative AI (GenAI). When implementing the AI TriSM framework, organizations can protect against cyber threats and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and data privacy laws.

AI systems rely on vast amounts of data, often sourced from external and internal repositories. Without a structured approach and effective safeguards, organizations are exposed to several risks, including:

  • Algorithmic Bias & Ethical Issues: Unchecked biases in AI models can lead to unfair outcomes and perpetuate existing inequalities, leading to severe consequences such as regulatory scrutiny, trust in AI, and reputation damage.
  • Data Breaches and Security Threats: AI models and training data are prime targets for cyberattacks and data exfiltration with several repercussions, including compliance issues and legal liabilities.
  • Loss of Trust: AI systems that go rogue and expose sensitive data or create decision bias can quickly erode the trust of employees and customers.
  • Regulatory Penalties – Non-compliance with data privacy laws can result in significant fines and legal consequences.
  • Operational Risks – Poorly governed AI systems can lead to inaccurate decisions, loss of customer trust, and financial loss.

How BigID Supports the AI TRiSM Framework

AI TRiSM is essential for organizations leveraging AI to ensure ethical, secure, and regulatory-compliant AI systems. BigID provides complete visibility into your AI model ecosystem, equipping your organization to manage AI-related data effectively and mitigating risks while maximizing the benefits of AI-driven innovation. By integrating BigID into their AI TRiSM strategy, organizations can confidently deploy AI technologies while safeguarding trust, security, and compliance in an increasingly AI-driven world.

BigID offers capabilities to help organizations implement AI TRiSM effectively, ensuring that AI-driven systems are secure, compliant, and trustworthy. With BigID, you can:

Discover and Classify AI Data

BigID automatically identifies, inventories, classifies, and maps sensitive data in AI training models and AI-related data assets. This 360-degree visibility lets you detect PII, PHI, financial data, and other critical information within your AI ecosystem to safeguard data and achieve compliance.

Govern AI and Enforce Policies

BigID can find, catalog, and govern unstructured data for LLM & conversational AI, which is the cornerstone of secure and responsible adoption of AI. With BigID, organizations can automate policy enforcement for AI data governance to manage, protect, and govern AI with security protocols that reduce risk by enabling zero trust, mitigating the threat of insider risk, and securing unstructured data across the entire data landscape.

Assess AI Data Risk

BigID automates the AI risk assessment process by classifying each AI asset, enabling organizations to quickly identify risks associated with each model and comply with evolving AI regulations. Once risks are identified, BigID helps you to prioritize mitigation strategies, such as cleansing training datasets, enforcing strict access controls, and streamlining remediation, retention, and deletion workflows.

Secure Data Stores and Control Access

BigID is the first DSPM platform to scan and secure sensitive data within AI-accessible data stores such as vector databases and external knowledge sources, detecting and mitigating the exposure of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other high-risk data embedded in vectors. With BigID, organizations can proactively assess data exposure, enforce access controls, and strengthen security to protect AI data from unauthorized AI data exposure.

Monitor and Secure AI Data

With BigID’s compliance monitoring and remediation capabilities, you can ensure your AI data complies with key regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, EU AI Act, and other industry standards, ensuring that sensitive information remains secure, protected, and compliant, enhancing data security and regulatory compliance.

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