Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced that it has extended its Cloudflare One platform to cover generative artificial intelligence to enable enterprises to use the latest AI tools without putting intellectual property and customer data at risk.

Cloudflare One for AI offers a suite of zero-trust security controls that are designed to provide a simple, fast and secure way for companies to build using the latest generative AI technologies. With the service, companies can gain visibility into and measure AI tool usage, prevent data loss and manage integrations, the company says.

The service is being pitched as a way to address increasing concerns among major companies about the risk of AI resulting in data leaks, such as the case in April where Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. workers accidentally leaked trade secrets via OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT. Cloudflare argues that although the concerns are real, AI can’t be avoided and companies need to strike a balance between enabling transformative innovation through AI while still maintaining compliance with data privacy regulations.

With Cloudflare One, companies gain visibility into and can measure AI tool usage to prevent data loss and manage integrations. Features include Cloudflare Gateway, which helps companies observe how many employees are experimenting with AI services and adds context when planning for budgets and enterprise licensing.

Cloudflare One for AI includes service tokens that provide a clear log of application programming interface requests, control over the specific services that can access AI training data and the ability to revoke tokens with a single click.

Another service, Cloudflare Tunnel, ensures that every request will be checked against the access rules configured for services protected by Cloudflare One or when teams are ready to allow an AI service to connect to their infrastructure.

Also obtaining AI scanning is Cloudflare’s Data Loss Prevention, which can now scan and monitor staff when they use AI to check for data that look like Social Security or credit card numbers. Custom scans can look for patterns based on data configurations for a specific team.

“AI holds incredible promise, but without proper guardrails, it can create significant risks for businesses,” co-founder and Chief Executive Matthew Prince said in a statement. “It is far too easy, by default, to upload sensitive internal or customer data to AI tools.”

“Cloudflare’s zero-trust products are the first to provide the guard rails for AI tools, so businesses can take advantage of the opportunity AI unlocks while ensuring only the data you want to expose gets shared,” Prince added.

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