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The NIST AI Risk Management Framework is a guide that helps organizations spot and reduce risks in AI systems. This framework was released in January 2023 by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. The framework is built around four key steps, namely: Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage, and is meant to help teams responsibly use AI. It doesn’t matter which industry you work in or which AI you use; this framework works everywhere.

When businesses grow, managing who can access what becomes serious business. One wrong access permission can lead to data leaks, compliance penalties, or financial damage. In fact, IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 found that the average global data breach cost reached $4.88 million, the highest ever recorded. These numbers necessitate the requirement of having strong access control in place.

AI or artificial intelligence has significantly altered how we work. From customer support bots to internal copilots, they help teams move faster and smarter. But there is a growing concern that many companies are still not ready for. It is data leakage in AI. When an AI agent accidentally or unknowingly shares private information with the wrong person or another system, it is called a data leak. When AI systems handle sensitive data, even a small mistake can expose private information.

Enterprise Agentic AI adoption faces a critical barrier: sensitive data exposure. AI agents perform tasks only as well as the context provided to them. However, context is precisely where enterprise data enters the workflow, introducing significant risk. Organizations need to deploy AI applications while maintaining strict data security, regulatory compliance, and privacy. This challenge stalls production deployments across enterprises, especially in healthcare and financial services.

There’s a claim gaining traction in the market: homomorphic encryption can preserve data privacy in AI workflows. Encrypt your data, run it through a language model, and never expose a single token. Sounds bulletproof. It isn’t. Homomorphic encryption (HE) was built for math, not language. Applying it to LLM pipelines is like encrypting a book and asking someone to summarize it without reading a word. The problem isn’t efficiency.