A Practical Pattern to Implement Secure Enterprise AI Search
A new pattern for enterprise AI search, termed the Security-Trimmed Index (STI), proposes normalizing data from disparate sources into a single Azure AI Search index. Each document within this index would include an Access Control List (ACL) field populated during the ingestion process. Crucially, access control is enforced at query time by injecting the user's identity into the search query, ensuring that results are filtered based on authorization before being returned to the application. AI
IMPACT This pattern could improve data security and efficiency for enterprises building AI search capabilities across multiple internal data sources.