Stop Sending Your Security Alerts to Cloud AI — Build Local LLM Tools Instead

Every time a security analyst pastes a suspicious log entry into a cloud-based AI chatbot, they might be handing adversaries a roadmap. That firewall alert contains your internal IP ranges. That phishing email reveals which executives are being targeted. That threat intelligence report maps your entire attack surface. I learned this the hard way. As a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Search Infrastructure, I spend my days thinking about how AI systems ingest, index, and retrieve sensitive data at scale.