Security and cyber resilience platforms are vital to AI

The research identified digital platforms that would be a priority for investment to scale generative AI, including data and AI, workplace platforms, automation platforms and cloud modernisation. But the platform which ranked the highest (57%) amongst our non-profit respondents was security and cyber resilience.

For non-profit organisations, protecting sensitive data about its employees, volunteers, donors, and beneficiaries is critical. In many cases this is a legal requirement, but it becomes an ethical concern when a breach of that data negatively impacts these stakeholders – it may even put volunteers and constituents at greater risk depending on the type of work the non-profit is doing.

While many new AI platforms have their own security and access control capabilities, non-profit organisations are still responsible for the fundamentals of good data governance, including data discovery, classification, protection and retention controls.

Non-profit and generative AI