What is GenAI Data Leakage?

GenAI data leakage is the exposure of confidential, personal, or regulated data through AI usage — most commonly when employees paste sensitive content into AI tools whose data handling the organization does not control. It is the most cited AI security concern in enterprises.

Leakage paths include prompts to consumer chatbots, source code in coding assistants, documents uploaded for summarization, and AI features silently embedded in approved SaaS.

Controls that work operate at the moment of use: detect sensitive content in prompts (PII, secrets, contracts), then allow, transform, or block per policy — with a record of the decision.

This inspect-and-enforce pattern at the conversation level is core to how Tokto supervises AI traffic.