Highlights:

  • Metomic for ChatGPT aims to tackle this issue by monitoring employee logins to the ChatGPT platform and conducting real-time scans of any uploaded data to identify potentially sensitive information.
  • Metomic promptly notifies security teams if employees upload sensitive data, including personally identifiable information, security credentials, and intellectual property, ensuring swift action to mitigate potential risks.

Metomic Ltd., a data security solution startup, has announced the launch of Metomic for ChatGPT. This new service provides information technology and security leaders with complete visibility into the sensitive data being uploaded to OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT platform.

As a browser plugin, the new service is specifically tailored to enable businesses to harness the full potential of the generative artificial intelligence solution while safeguarding their company’s most sensitive data.

Metomic asserts that despite the surge in popularity of ChatGPT, significant concerns persist regarding employees inadvertently exposing vulnerable company information by uploading sensitive data to the platform. The company references studies indicating a concerning 60% uptick in employees uploading sensitive data to ChatGPT, emphasizing the heightened risk to vulnerable company information.

Metomic for ChatGPT aims to tackle this issue by monitoring employee logins to the ChatGPT platform and conducting real-time scans of any uploaded data to identify potentially sensitive information. Additionally, it identifies critical risks within ChatGPT conversations and provides contextual previews of sensitive data uploaded to the platform, enhancing proactive risk management.

The service promptly notifies security teams if employees upload sensitive data, including personally identifiable information, security credentials, and intellectual property, ensuring swift action to mitigate potential risks. The browser extension includes 150 prebuilt data classifiers for recognizing common critical data risks. Additionally, it enables businesses to create customized data classifiers to identify their most vulnerable information.

“Very few technology solutions have had the impact of OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform… but many business leaders are apprehensive to leverage the technology, fearing their most sensitive business data could be exposed,” stated Rich Vibert, the CEO. “Our ChatGPT integration expands on our foundational value as a data security platform. Businesses gain all the advantages that come with ChatGPT while avoiding serious data vulnerabilities. It’s a major win for everyone — the employees using the technology and the security teams tasked with safeguarding the business.”

Metomic for ChatGPT is accessible to any customer who has integrated the company’s data security platform. The venture capital-backed startup secured USD 20 million in funding in February 2022, with investors such as Evolution Equity Partners LLC, Resonance Ltd., and Connect Ventures Management LLP.