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4.0Threat & Security

Make AI security observable,
actionable, and accountable.

AI systems introduce a new security surface across prompts, outputs, models, agents, and the data they interact with. Strai8 continuously monitors AI activity, detects threats and policy violations, and gives security teams the context to investigate, respond, and prove what happened.

4.1Continuous monitoring

AI threats don't wait for a security review.

Threat detectionsSampling the latest 500 of 1,284 threats in this rangeLowMedium & highCritical
Sensitive data exposure
1 Aug8 Aug15 Aug22 Aug29 Aug
Alert · action required

Potential data exposure

Customer Support Copilot · seen ×3

HighInvestigate
Alert · Action required
Potential data exposure
Surfaced while the context is still available
Detection · Security signal
Sensitive data exposure
The interaction crosses a data-handling boundary
Event · AI activity
Sensitive data in an AI interaction
prompt "export the last 200 tickets with full customer details"
response "… card •••• 4471, national ID •••• 9012 …"
Why · Source
Where the activity was seen
Read-only, from what the system already emits
AI system · Context
Customer Support Copilot
Production · High risk
Registered system
Reach · Connected systems
Ticketing · Knowledge base
Reachable from this AI system
Reach · Data
Customer records
What the interaction could touch
Owner · Accountability
Security owner
Assigned for investigation
Owner · System
Platform engineering lead
Accountable for the connected system
EventWhyReachOwners
What you get

One alert. The context to understand it. Know what happened, which AI system was involved, what data or systems were affected, who owns it, and what needs to happen next.

4.2What we catch

Govern, map, measure, and manage AI security.

AI security is not a single control. It is four things done continuously: define what is allowed, understand where the risk actually sits, detect what is happening, and turn what you find into action with an owner and a record.

Govern
Policy boundaryApproved modelApproved applicationUnapproved model
Signals
  • Policy violations
  • Unauthorised AI usage
  • Unapproved models or applications
  • Access outside defined boundaries
Make AI security policies enforceable.

Define what AI systems are allowed to do, what data they can handle, and what security requirements apply. Detect activity that falls outside those policies.

Map
Signals
  • Sensitive data exposure
  • Connected systems
  • AI system dependencies
  • Ownership and accountability
Understand where AI risk actually exists.

Connect AI systems to their users, data, applications, infrastructure and business context, so a security event can be understood in context.

Measure
Signals
  • Prompt injection
  • Jailbreak attempts
  • Unsafe outputs
  • Anomalous behaviour
Continuously detect and assess AI threats.

Monitor AI activity and evaluate behaviour against security, privacy and governance expectations — turning raw AI activity into meaningful security signals.

Manage
CriticalSensitive data exposureSecurity owner
HighPrompt injectionIn remediation
MediumUnsafe outputResolved
Signals
  • Threat severity
  • Incident ownership
  • Remediation status
  • Resolution history
Turn AI threats into action.

Prioritise incidents by risk, route them to the right owner, track remediation, and keep a record of what happened and how it was resolved.

4.3The reality

Five questions security teams can't afford to leave unanswered.

AI security becomes difficult when an incident happens and nobody can quickly establish what happened, what was affected, or who is responsible.

Chief Information Security Officer

Has anyone attacked our AI systems?

No clear answerScattered across tools
Incident

Every meaningful AI security event

Captured and tracked, instead of spread across AI applications and existing security tooling.

Data Protection

Did sensitive or regulated data leave through AI?

Unknown exposureRaised by someone else first
Exposure

What left, and in which interaction

Found here, rather than when a user, a customer or a regulator raises it.

Security Operations

Which AI system was involved?

Investigation requiredScope rebuilt by hand
Impact

The AI system, its data and connected resources

AI-specific context arrives with the alert, so nobody reconstructs the scope.

Engineering

Who owns the system and can fix it?

Ownership unclearAccountability sits elsewhere
Owner

A named owner for investigation and remediation

Security finds the issue; the person who can act on it is already attached to it.

General Counsel / Risk

What do we need to report or disclose?

Context is incompleteA narrative, not a record
Evidence

What happened, what was affected, what was done

A defensible record, assembled while the incident ran rather than afterwards.

4.4What happens next

Every AI incident arrives with a plan.

Finding a threat is only the beginning. Security needs a clear path from detection to containment, remediation and closure.

Investigate

Review the AI interaction, affected system, scope and security context before deciding how to respond.

Contain

Restrict the affected AI system, access path or behaviour before the issue becomes a larger incident.

Remediate

Address the policy, configuration, access, model or application issue responsible for the exposure.

Close

Record the resolution, ownership, actions taken and final state, so the incident doesn't disappear into a ticket.

4.5Objections

The questions security leaders ask before they trust an AI security program.

AI security introduces a new problem: traditional security controls may tell you that something happened, but not whether it happened inside an AI system, what the AI was doing, or what the business impact was.

Know what your AI is doing before something goes wrong.

Continuously detect AI threats, understand their impact, and give your security team the context to respond before a suspicious interaction becomes an incident.