Companies and government agencies around the world are moving to restrict their employees’ access to the tools recently released by the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, according to the cybersecurity firms hired to help protect their systems.
"Hundreds” of companies, particularly those associated with governments, have worked to block access to DeepSeek due to concerns about potential data leaks to the Chinese government and what they view as weak privacy safeguards, Nadir Izrael, chief technology officer of the cyber firm Armis, said, referring to the startup’s own clientele. Most customers of Netskope, a network security firm that companies use to restrict employees access to websites, among other services, are similarly moving to limit connections.
Roughly 70% of Armis customers have requested blocks, the company said, and 52% Netskope clients are blocking access to the site entirely, according to Ray Canzanese, director of Netskope’s threat labs.
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