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Why Knowledge Security is the Next Big AI Battleground

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What is knowledge security?  Why is it as important as data security? How are employees unintentionally feeding valuable business processes into AI models? And how is the rise of AI agents reshaping the traditional SaaS technology stack?

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This interview highlights 'knowledge security' as a critical emerging risk where corporate workflows and tacit human judgment are inadvertently absorbed by foundation models and AI agents. The discussion emphasizes that the capture of specific, high-level business logic by third-party AI systems could lead to a loss of competitive sovereignty and unintended capability transfer. While the focus is primarily on corporate IP, the leakage of sensitive operational logic into frontier models presents broader governance challenges regarding how model training data is harvested. The Australian context is prominent through the inclusion of Decidr Ai Industries, an ASX-listed entity, and its implications for local industry security frameworks.

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What is knowledge security?  Why is it as important as data security? How are employees unintentionally feeding valuable business processes into AI models? And how is the rise of AI agents reshaping the traditional SaaS technology stack?Host Tylah Tully answers all these questions and more when she sits down with Decidr Ai Industries (ASX:DAI) executive director David Brudenell for Part Two of the conversation, diving deeper into one of the most critical - and overlooked - risks in artificial intelligence: knowledge security.If you missed Part One of Brudenell's interview, tune in here.As businesses rapidly adopt AI agents and foundation models, Brudenell explains why companies may be exposing not just their data, but the very way they operate - their workflows, judgment, and competitive edge.He outlines how this 'tacit knowledge' is being captured by AI systems and why protecting it is becoming just as important as traditional cybersecurity.Here's what he said.Although Decidr.AI is a Stockhead advertiser at the time of publishing, it did not sponsor this content.This video does not constitute financial product advice. You should consider obtaining independent advice before making any financial decisions.Originally published as WTF with Decidr: The AI risk no one is talking about