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Interview question · LLM Application Security

How do you stop employees leaking company data into public AI tools?

Banning tools people find useful mostly moves the leak somewhere you cannot see. The scored answer offers an approved route, then adds policy, technical controls and visibility around it.

easyNewPreparation tags: JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Palo Alto NetworksUpdated Nov 2026

Banning tools people find useful mostly moves the leak somewhere you cannot see. The scored answer offers an approved route, then adds policy, technical controls and visibility around it.

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  1. 01 State the assumptions your answer depends on.
  2. 02 Explain the mechanism and choose a control.
  3. 03 Name a condition that would change your decision.

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An employee pastes proprietary source code and a customer spreadsheet into a public AI chatbot to get help with a deadline.

  1. What is the actual risk?
  2. What do you do about this specific incident?
  3. What if the company provides an approved AI tool with enterprise terms?
  4. How can you detect and limit pasting into unapproved tools?
  5. What if employees keep using public tools anyway?
  6. What would your response and programme include?

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