How to keep track of legacy IT that goes AI
June 17, 2025 – Published on IT Brew
So, you woke up and your favorite SaaS tool now has an AI capability you didn’t ask for.
An attendee at our recent IT Brew virtual event asked how to track the legacy IT that suddenly gets AI-ified: “Should we be evaluating these tools differently?”
We posed the question to IT industry pros, including Jim Packer, practice lead, data security, data privacy and AI governance, GuidePoint Security. He shared:
“Understanding exactly what data is flowing to the AI components, where it’s processed, internally or externally, and how it’s stored or transmitted to any kind of third-party AI providers is important…You have to evaluate whether any of the legacy vendors are disclosing what AI models they’re using and whether they’re proprietary or third-party, like an OpenAI or Anthropic for example, and then what data-governance controls exist around the AI processing layer at the vendor level. So, this isn’t even at your level.
You need to know what the vendor is doing first and foremost before you decide to go into business with that vendor and use that vendor’s technology. And then at your level, you need to then understand your data and how it’s going to be used within that vendor’s environment.”
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