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52 practical playbooks

AI security, one workflow at a time.

Prepare a document for AI, test a data protection control, or make a policy decision. Start with the specific job in front of your team.

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Each playbook includes a synthetic scenario, practical steps, approval checks and questions for your evaluation.

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Document workflows

Prepare a contract for AI review

Prepare a contract excerpt for AI review while preserving party roles, defined terms and clause references. Check hidden identifiers before sharing.

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Document workflows

Prepare payroll workbooks for AI

Separate a payroll formula question from employee records. Check hidden sheets, linked cells and useful calculations before sending a workbook to AI.

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Document workflows

Prepare invoices for AI processing

Build an invoice extraction example without sharing payment instructions. Preserve line-item relationships and verify text, images and remittance details.

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Document workflows

Prepare sales pipeline data for AI

Minimize a sales pipeline export while retaining stage history and useful trends. Review contact notes, account clues and customer-level reconstruction risks.

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Document workflows

Prepare support tickets for AI

Prepare minimized support examples for AI theme analysis. Review quoted threads, logs and attachments while keeping the issue and resolution sequence useful.

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Document workflows

Prepare HR investigation notes for AI

Decide whether an HR investigation task can use a synthetic excerpt. Preserve attribution and uncertainty without exposing witnesses or case allegations.

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Document workflows

Prepare resumes for AI summarization

Create a minimized resume excerpt for a factual summary. Review contact details, identifying career clues and unsupported inferences before sharing or reuse.

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Document workflows

Prepare incident reports for AI review

Build an incident-review excerpt without live secrets or unnecessary infrastructure details. Preserve event order and check generated claims against evidence.

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Document workflows

Prepare M&A documents for AI review

Scope an M&A review around an approved excerpt or synthetic example. Separate transaction identity, commercial sensitivity and permission to use an AI provider.

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Document workflows

Prepare insurance claim files for AI

Prepare a bounded claim chronology or document checklist for AI. Review claimant identifiers, narratives and attachments without delegating a coverage decision.

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Document workflows

Prepare board papers for an AI summary

Scope a board-paper summary around authorized material. Preserve decisions, caveats and financial meaning while excluding restricted appendices and personal details.

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Document workflows

Prepare pricing models for AI analysis

Separate a pricing formula question from confidential rates and negotiation logic. Build synthetic cases, inspect workbook dependencies and verify the proposed analysis.

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Document workflows

Prepare audit working papers for AI

Prepare a synthetic or approved audit excerpt that preserves evidence references and unresolved exceptions. Keep client identifiers and original workpapers separate.

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Document workflows

Prepare property documents for AI

Create a property-document excerpt without unnecessary addresses or ownership clues. Preserve unit relationships and task context while reviewing maps and attachments.

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Document workflows

Prepare participant research data for AI

Scope AI assistance for participant research using approved excerpts or synthetic responses. Review consent scope, indirect identifiers and quotation fidelity.

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Document workflows

Prepare procurement bids for AI comparison

Build a controlled bid-comparison extract with consistent criteria and source references. Protect supplier contacts and commercial details without inventing equivalence.

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Document workflows

Prepare meeting transcripts for AI

Prepare an approved transcript excerpt for action extraction. Review speaker identity, off-topic personal details and inaccurate transcription before generating a summary.

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Document workflows

Prepare healthcare administration files for AI

Prepare a bounded healthcare administration extract without unnecessary case identifiers. Preserve workflow status and review indirect identification before AI use.

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Control evaluation

Test typed and pasted AI prompts separately

Evaluate typing, paste and submission as separate AI DLP paths using synthetic fixtures, repeatable controls and evidence of the final result.

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Control evaluation

Evaluate every in-scope AI file upload path

Build a repeatable AI upload test covering attachment buttons, drag and drop, multiple files and unsupported inputs without assuming equal protection.

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Control evaluation

Verify DOCX redaction without losing document structure

Evaluate a redacted Word document for protected text, tables, headers, comments and editing usability with a synthetic document review protocol.

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Control evaluation

Test spreadsheet redaction beyond visible cells

Evaluate redacted Excel workbooks for hidden content, formula behavior and retained business meaning using a controlled synthetic spreadsheet.

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Control evaluation

Evaluate text PDFs and scanned PDFs separately

Test PDF redaction using text, scanned and mixed documents, with checks for selectable content, OCR limitations and usable output.

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Control evaluation

Measure false positives against an agreed task set

Build a labeled synthetic evaluation set to distinguish AI DLP false positives, missed detections and genuine disagreements about policy.

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Control evaluation

Measure the delay employees experience when submitting to AI

Measure policy-decision and submission delays separately from AI response generation with a repeatable synthetic latency evaluation.

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Control evaluation

Distinguish a hard block from a user override

Evaluate warning, override, block and redaction decisions against an explicit AI-use policy with safe synthetic submission tests.

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Control evaluation

Verify AI policy decisions for different teams and roles

Test identity mapping, group overlap and policy changes with dedicated accounts before applying different AI-use rules across teams.

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Control evaluation

Recheck AI DLP after a browser update

Use a small regression suite to confirm prompt, attachment and policy behavior after browser or extension changes on managed devices.

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Control evaluation

Test AI DLP when managed devices leave the office

Evaluate approved AI controls across office and off-site network conditions without assuming endpoint or network architecture guarantees roaming coverage.

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Control evaluation

Compare browser and native AI workflows using matching tests

Build a matched browser-versus-desktop AI evaluation that separates visibility, prompt prevention and file handling for each supported path.

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Control evaluation

Verify that an AI security alert reaches its intended owner

Trace a synthetic AI policy event through a supported alert integration and confirm delivery, interpretation and ownership without assuming an event schema.

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Control evaluation

Evaluate AI DLP failure and recovery before rollout

Use approved isolated fault scenarios to assess AI submission behavior, user guidance and recovery without assuming fail-open or fail-closed operation.

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Control evaluation

Validate what an AI security event needs to contain

Review supported event payloads, access and retention against a specific investigation purpose using synthetic AI security events.

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Control evaluation

Define AI security acceptance criteria before the demo

Turn business requirements into a scoped AI security pilot with testable outcomes, evidence owners, mandatory gates and explicit unresolved cases.

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Control evaluation

Verify discovery and enforcement as separate AI capabilities

Evaluate catalog entries, observed AI use and supported prompt or file controls separately instead of treating an AI tool count as enforcement coverage.

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Policy in practice

Review an AI policy exception before a client deadline

Decide whether an urgent client task needs an AI policy exception, a narrower dataset or an approved alternative, with an owner and expiry.

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Policy in practice

Turn a discovered AI tool into a reviewed decision

Move a newly discovered AI application from an observation to a documented approve, restrict or defer decision based on its actual use.

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Policy in practice

Retire an AI tool while preserving business work

Plan an AI tool retirement around business records, reusable work, integrations and access removal rather than a subscription cancellation alone.

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Policy in practice

Set AI access boundaries for a new contractor

Clarify a contractor's approved AI accounts, devices, client-data boundaries and exit responsibilities before the first project task.

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Policy in practice

Hand over AI policy ownership without losing decisions

Transfer AI policy ownership with a decision register, current exceptions, control responsibilities and a practical walkthrough of unresolved work.

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Policy in practice

Prepare AI usage evidence for a board decision

Build a board briefing that separates observed AI use, tested controls, coverage gaps and decisions required without overstating what activity metrics prove.

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Policy in practice

Triage a sensitive-data submission to AI

Establish whether a sensitive AI submission was prevented or transmitted, preserve minimal evidence and route the case to the right incident owner.

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Policy in practice

Resolve AI account and plan mismatches

Check whether employees are using the AI account, workspace and plan that were approved before relying on reviewed settings or provider commitments.

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Policy in practice

Roll out AI guardrails with a clear employee notice

Explain what AI guardrails do, what information the deployment handles and how employees can get help before introducing new controls.

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Policy in practice

Choose a useful sample for an AI security pilot

Choose pilot teams by their AI workflows, data categories and endpoint paths so a successful test does not hide important deployment gaps.

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Policy in practice

Review AI use when two organizations combine

Reconcile AI tools, approval records, accounts and data-sharing boundaries after a merger without assuming either organization's controls cover the other.

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Policy in practice

Close AI access when an employee leaves

Coordinate AI account access, shared projects, connections and business-record handover when an employee leaves, with explicit verification by each owner.

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Policy in practice

Resolve the risks of a shared AI account

Review shared AI logins, workspace access and conversation visibility, then establish accountable access without interrupting the team's legitimate work.

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Policy in practice

Recheck an AI tool after a vendor change

Reassess an approved AI workflow when a provider changes its product, terms, permissions or data handling, using the original approval as the baseline.

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Policy in practice

Separate AI training terms from data-sharing decisions

Assess what a no-training commitment does and does not answer before permitting sensitive prompts or files to reach an AI service.

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Policy in practice

Turn MCP inventory findings into a scoped review

Interpret MCP configuration findings, verify ownership and permissions, and assign remediation without confusing static inspection with live blocking.

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Policy in practice

Resolve an AI DLP policy dispute with evidence

Review a disputed AI block or warning by separating detection accuracy, policy intent and workflow fit, then verify any scoped change.

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Technical evaluation

Turn a checklist into a tested workflow

Discuss your AI tools, devices and data handling requirements with Aona. Define what success needs to look like before evaluating controls.

AI Security Playbooks: Documents, DLP Tests & Policy | Aona AI