Addressing legacy security challenges 9 with AI and Zero Trust AI accelerates the adoption of Zero Trust AI can play a pivotal role in accelerating the Generating automation (scripts, programs, implementation and operationalization of a etc.) also accelerates Zero Trust by allowing Zero Trust strategy. Generative AI enhances security teams to avoid repetitive work and this by acting as an on-demand resource for focus their efforts on strategic activities learning and automating key tasks, such as instead. This also reduces repetitive manual data discovery and classification. This not only tasks, which are prone to human error and speeds up workflows but also ensures that can cause risk. Note that these should be data is managed securely and consistently created in a secure by design manner to avoid across the organization. introducing additional security risks. Furthermore, Generative AI can enhance both Note that many recommended business process understanding and security data security and governance risk identification. For example, it can help practices have been known organizations discover sensitive data and assess before the usage of the ‘Zero whether unauthorized individuals have access, while also detecting patterns that indicate Trust’ name, but they still fit the unusual data movement within or outside the Zero Trust philosophy perfectly. organization. These patterns could point to These have also often been insider risks, innocent errors, or even external deferred or deprioritized at many data exfiltration attempts. By learning from organizations, so they are often these patterns, AI not only benefits productivity ‘new’ approaches to but also refines security design, helping the organization. business and security teams better understand processes and identify vulnerabilities.