How Varonis Protects ChatGPT Enterprise Users Against AI Security Risks
Author: Beth Laws
Release Date: 24/07/2025
The Varonis SaaS Data Security Platform has recently extended its capabilities to integrate with ChatGPT Enterprise, enabling organisations to better adopt AI more securely. ChatGPT Enterprises uses a ‘connected apps’ method to gain access to company data; this approach can allow the AI chatbot to access data from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Sharepoint files.
Businesses must be aware that adopting AI does come with significant risks, such as accidental data leakage of over-exposed files and must still ensure any data laws, ie. GDPR, are still adhered to. IT and Security teams can gain insights into employees' interactions with the chat-bot and be kept in-the-know about what sensitive data is uploaded to ChatGPT.
Monitor ChatGPT Activity
Varonis continuously monitors ChatGPT audit logs, collecting information from all chat sessions and any files shared from connected apps with the chat-bot. All prompts and chat-bot responses are monitored and captured, which means it’s possible to search sessions for any keywords or bespoke business terms.
From the Varonis interface, you’ll also be able to pinpoint when sensitive data is uploaded to ChatGPT or shared in a response in the chat session. The built-in data classification technology in the Varonis platform detects sensitive data stored in connected apps and chat sessions, identifying all sorts of sensitive information in files, from credit card information to employee ID numbers.
AI Threat Detection and Investigation
The Data Security Platform has built-in threat detection models and employs user behaviour analytics technology to look for unusual and potentially malicious behaviours. ChatGPT admin role changes, sensitive and large file uploads, are just some of the built-in AI alert models in Varonis to help spot any suspicious use of ChatGPT.
Investigating AI activity and understanding how data has moved through an organisation can be conducted very easily from the alert investigation pages in Varonis. As Varonis monitors access activity of multiple data stores, the sometimes crucial path of a user's activity can be followed seamlessly.
With the Managed Data Detection and Response (MDDR) option, customers can feel reassured that their AI alerts are monitored and triaged continuously by Varonis’ team of incident response experts with this 24/7 365 a year service.
AI Security Dashboard
Varonis SaaS has a new AI Security Dashboard. Various panels are displayed in the dashboard to give an overview of AI business risk and usage insights, covering not only ChatGPT insights, but also insights into Microsoft Copilot usage. Some examples of what panels you may see in the dashboard might be overexposed file references using Copilot or a graph displaying the number of chat-bot prompts over time.
If you are considering ChatGPT Enterprise or other AI business tools such as Microsoft Copilot then you may benefit from a free Varonis Data Risk Assessment to evaluate your AI-readiness. Please head to our dedicated Varonis Data Risk Assessment page to sign up!
