Sensitive Data
Any personal, financial, medical, or commercially confidential information that could cause harm if exposed without authorization.
Related terms
Security Boundary
The defined perimeter — network, infrastructure, or organizational — within which sensitive data is contained and controlled.
Shadow AI
The unauthorized or unmonitored use of AI tools within an organization, often exposing sensitive data without oversight.
Agentic Workflows
Automated, multi-step processes where AI agents perform tasks — retrieving insights, drafting reports — autonomously without exposing raw sensitive data.
Cloud Data Protection
Security measures — encryption, access controls, monitoring — used to safeguard sensitive data hosted in cloud environments.
Controlled Cloud Environment
A secure, access-restricted cloud infrastructure with defined data residency and encryption used to process sensitive data.
Data Leakage
Unintended or unauthorized exposure of sensitive data, often occurring when confidential files are pasted into public AI tools.
See Sensitive Data in practice
Questa AI anonymizes sensitive data before it reaches any AI model — across documents and live prompts, with governance and data-residency control.