Security Practitioner’s Guide to AI Data Readiness

For many enterprises, the first real exposure to generative AI comes through tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI assistants embedded in SaaS platforms. These systems inherit years of permissions and shared repositories, making sensitive data searchable by AI. Security teams already struggle with fragmented visibility across cloud, SaaS, and legacy environments. DLP, IAM, and logging tools show part of the picture but lack an AI-aware view of how copilots and agents access data. AI Data Readiness helps organizations understand where sensitive data lives and how AI systems interact with it before enabling AI at scale.