If your staff is pasting client data into public AI tools without clear boundaries, your firm may already be in violation of state and federal privacy mandates. Unmanaged AI use is a shadow IT problem with regulatory teeth. TrebSec helps firms see the exposure clearly and set governance before it becomes a finding.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides the reference blueprints for defensible security and AI governance. TrebSec advisory work is anchored to these federal standards, so the rules we help you set for AI use rest on a recognized, documented baseline.
The universal standard for managing cybersecurity risk. We use it to frame how your firm governs third-party vendors, maps its data, and sets defensive expectations before new technology is adopted.
The AI Risk Management Framework addresses the risks specific to artificial intelligence, including hallucinations, bias, and data leakage. It is the structure behind our AI governance advice.
Target: Financial institutions, tax preparers, and investment advisors.
The AI Liability: GLBA requires strict protection of consumer financial privacy. Using unauthorized cloud AI to process financial data without explicit consent and encryption protocols is a serious compliance failure.
The Advisory Response: We review AI vendor terms against GLBA expectations: how long the vendor keeps your data, whether it trains models on it, and whether that promise is in the contract or only in a settings page, so client financial data stays out of public model training sets.
Target: Any firm handling the data of EU citizens.
The AI Liability: GDPR mandates the right to erasure and strict data minimization. Public AI models can memorize training data, which can make an erasure request impossible to honor if personal data has been ingested.
The Advisory Response: We help you choose tools and settings where your data is read temporarily and never memorized, and document that choice, preserving your ability to comply with GDPR deletion requests.
Target: CPA firms, tax preparers, auto dealers, mortgage brokers.
The AI Liability: The FTC classifies tax preparers as financial institutions. The rule requires access controls and continuous monitoring. An unauthorized AI transcription tool summarizing a client meeting that contains tax data can breach the mandated data boundaries and encryption requirements.
The Advisory Response: We help you evaluate AI tools before staff adopt them, set written rules for what data may go where, and keep human review in the loop, so AI works inside your compliant environment instead of outside it.
Target: Covered financial institutions, title agents, and specialized law firms.
The AI Liability: DFS requires entities to continually assess cybersecurity risks, including emerging technology. Failing to document how generative AI interacts with your non-public information (NPI), or failing to oversee third-party AI vendors, can be a direct DFS violation.
The Advisory Response: We help you document your AI use cases, vendor oversight, and risk decisions in the form examiners expect, and fold AI-specific threat vectors into your incident response planning.
Target: Any business holding private data of a NY resident.
The AI Liability: The SHIELD Act mandates reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. Allowing employees to upload personal data into consumer-grade AI models without a formal vendor risk assessment undercuts the technical safeguard requirements.
The Advisory Response: We help you put a written acceptable AI use policy in place (administrative) and select tools whose data handling you have actually reviewed (technical), so both halves of the safeguard requirement are covered.
Book a 60-minute AI and Cyber Strategy Session. Bring a vendor contract, a tool list, or a governance question, and leave with a clear read on your exposure and your next steps.
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