The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is diligently working to assess and implement AI technology into its technology ecosystem, but an agency official said today that the process of weaving AI into the tech mix also points to possible risks in supply chain management and data integrity issues.
Monica Montgomery, deputy chief information security officer (CISO) for management and strategy and deputy director of the cybersecurity office the NGA, discussed how the agency is sizing up those concerns during today’s Qualys Public Sector Cyber Risk Conference.
“I think one of the biggest challenges that we face right now, especially with AI [is] in supply chain risk management,” she said. “You can’t go anywhere right now without talking about that, and especially in AI when you think about how those large language models (LLMs) are being developed, how they’re being maintained, [and] what to do if there is data poisoning.”
“If you just start to poison your data model, you’re going to go off real quick into left field, and that’s maybe not where you want to be,” Montgomery said. “So data integrity is part of it.”
“But then when…
