A CISO's Playbook for Defending Data Assets Against AI Scraping
Dark Reading, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Discover a strategic approach to govern scraping risks, balance security with business growth, and safeguard intellectual capital from automated data harvesting.
QUESTION: How can CISOs defend against AI scraping?
Areejit Banerjee, Senior Manager of Data Protection Strategy & Product Trust; Researcher in AI Governance, Purdue University: Organizations with commercially valuable data face a near-certainty that AI-driven scrapers are already trying to harvest it at scale, turning public endpoints into high-throughput extraction pipelines.