Kiteworks: The Secure Backbone Enabling Advancements in Ethical AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries and changing lives. As this powerful technology continues advancing, governments are establishing principles and policies to ensure AI benefits society responsibly and ethically. The recent U.S. Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence aims to seize the promise and manage the risks of AI.

As a leading secure content collaboration platform, Kiteworks is ready to support public and private sector organizations in achieving the order’s vision for ethical AI advancement. With its robust security capabilities and seamless content workflows, Kiteworks can be the backbone enabling secure cross-sector AI research, development, and information sharing while protecting AI systems and data.

Bolstering Secure AI Research and Development

A core focus of the Executive Order is catalyzing innovation in AI research and expanding collaboration. Kiteworks provides the ideal secure platform for these goals.

With Kiteworks, research institutions, government agencies, and private companies can seamlessly share ideas, datasets, models, and findings across organizational and geographic boundaries. Kiteworks’ encrypted platform ensures sensitive AI data remains protected throughout these exchanges, while real-time tracking provides transparency into content access.

By centralizing collaboration on one unified platform, Kiteworks removes silos and complexities from the innovation process. Data and documents related to proposing, discussing, and furthering initiatives are stored in one secure content repository. Teams can work together on projects in real time while controlling document access based on clearance levels. Emails, chat, annotations, and task management features streamline communication and progress monitoring.

This integrated approach to secure content collaboration delivers major advantages for organizations pursuing cross-sector AI research:

• Accelerated exchange of ideas, data, and discoveries to rapidly progress innovations.
• Improved visibility into who is accessing materials to maintain transparency.
• Tight control over sensitive information to mitigate data leakage risks across large, dispersed teams.
• Reduced administrative burdens through centralized policies, workflows, and user provisioning.

By facilitating seamless yet governed data flows, Kiteworks provides the digital backbone for executing programs like the National AI Research Resource envisioned in the Executive Order. Multidisciplinary researchers across academia, industry, and government can securely access shared repositories of data, tools, and computing power to drive breakthroughs in AI.

Similarly, Kiteworks enables streamlined execution of bilateral and multilateral partnerships on AI priorities. The content collaboration platform becomes a hub for teams to securely co-develop ideas, models, and standards with international allies as called for in the order.

Enabling Ethical and Responsible AI Systems

Beyond accelerating research, Kiteworks delivers robust capabilities for developing, deploying, and managing AI systems consistent with ethics and American values, as mandated in the Executive Order.

Trustworthy data is the foundation for ethical AI. Kiteworks provides the controls and protections necessary for responsible data use. Granular access policies, user activity tracking, and encryption safeguard against data leakage and misuse—upholding privacy and civil liberties. Workflows automate sound data management practices like de-identification and consent records for training data.

Kiteworks also enables essential oversight and sharing of assessment records called for in the order, including:

• Sharing system safety and performance data with regulators in a controlled manner for independent third-party validation.
• Securely collaborating with assessors and auditors to evaluate AI systems for fairness and mitigate risks of harm.
• Providing transparency to stakeholders on risk assessments, while locking down proprietary information.
• Maintaining detailed documentation and audit logs on evaluations to demonstrate organizational diligence.

Furthermore, Kiteworks powers robust version control and Supplier Management capabilities critical for AI governance. Kiteworks makes it easy to securely collaborate with vendors and partners involved in AI system development while controlling sensitive assets. Organizations can limit external entity access strictly to necessary materials to safeguard IP and data security.

For agency adoption of AI tools outlined in the Order, Kiteworks enables centralized control and visibility to prevent unauthorized usage or “shadow AI” projects. Usage auditing confirms AI technologies are only applied for sanctioned use cases by approved staff.

Securing AI Infrastructure and Operations

Along with ethical development and deployment practices, robust security protections are imperative given AI’s integral role in national infrastructure, commerce, and defense.

As a high-value target, AI data must be safeguarded against adversaries. Kiteworks prevents unauthorized access and theft of proprietary models, algorithms, and training data assets through verified user access, robust encryption, and anomalous activity monitoring.

Kiteworks also plays a critical role in identifying and resolving system vulnerabilities leveraging AI-enabled cybersecurity, as mandated in the Executive Order. The platform provides secure pathways for:

• Sharing threat intelligence, vulnerabilities, and fixes between public and private sector stakeholders.
• Distributing testing tools and security patches efficiently and at scale.
• Managing responsible disclosure and oversight throughout remediation workflows.

For any mission-critical system, continuity and integrity of operations are paramount. Kiteworks maintains essential data backups with version histories in the cloud. Should systems fail, data recovery and restoration are quick and seamless. Compliance archiving also supports legal and regulatory mandates related to AI data retention.

Protect Americans’ privacy by prioritizing federal support for accelerating the development and use of privacy-preserving techniques. Kiteworks incorporates advanced cryptographic methods to ensure secure data storage and transmission. Its encryption-at-rest and encryption-in-transit capabilities align with the privacy-preserving techniques highlighted in the requirement. Kiteworks ensures that only authorized users can access the data, bolstering user data privacy and reducing the risk of data breaches.

Realizing the Promise of AI–Securely

AI holds tremendous promise to enhance our lives, strengthen communities, and drive sustainable growth. As public and private sector organizations pursue this potential, Kiteworks delivers the content collaboration platform to accelerate innovations in ethical AI for the public good, securely.

To learn more about Kiteworks and how a private content network can assist you in your organization’s AI journey, schedule a custom demo today.

The Kiteworks Private Content Network, a FIPS 140-2 Level validated secure file sharing and file transfer platform, consolidates email, file sharing, web forms, SFTP and managed file transfer, so organizations control, protect, and track every file as it enters and exits the organization.

Kiteworks deployment options include on-premises, hosted, private, hybrid, and FedRAMP virtual private cloud. With Kiteworks: control access to sensitive content; protect it when it’s shared externally using automated end-to-end encryption, multi-factor authentication, and security infrastructure integrations; see, track, and report all file activity, namely who sends what to whom, when, and how. Finally, demonstrate compliance with regulations and standards like GDPR, HIPAA, CMMC, Cyber Essentials Plus, IRAP, and many more.

Additional Resources

• Webinar The Evolution and Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Data Security Decisions
• Press Release Kiteworks Achieves Unparalleled Marketing Scale and Efficiencies With Generative AI Innovations
• Blog Post AI for the Good and Bad in Cybersecurity
• Blog Post Cyber Forensics and Incident Response Drive Cybersecurity Frameworks
• Brief Harnessing AI Evolution and Combating Data Leakage With Kiteworks