Run the Two Gates Before Every Prompt
Explore a five-step routine to securely manage data used in AI prompts within Department of Defense environments. Understand how to categorize sensitive information, verify Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) status, trace data transfer paths, check authorization evidence, and record defensible decisions. This lesson equips you to prevent unauthorized data transfer and maintain compliance under pressure, ensuring accountable and secure AI use in federal workflows.
The data-and-environment decision record can end in ESCALATE or NO-GO, and the next thing that happens is ordinary work continuing anyway. That is where most teams slip. A person has a prompt drafted, the brief is due, and the chat box is open. The common mistake is treating that moment as a judgment about output quality, when it is still a decision about transfer. The pressure makes the transfer feel like a small step because it is only text. The transfer is still real, and it can change where the information persists, who may gain access to it, and what controls apply after it leaves the ...