Do You Know Which AI Tools Your Employees Are Using Right Now?

Shadow AI gives you complete visibility, policy control, and an audit trail across every AI tool your workforce touches. Built into Xcitium Secure Internet Gateway. Zero endpoint install required.

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Shadow AI Governance
Shadow AI Is Already Inside Your Organization

A developer pastes source code into ChatGPT, and no record exists. It happens across four channels that your security stack was never built to see.

Browser Access

Employees paste customer records, source code, and financial data into ChatGPT, Claude.ai, and Gemini with no record kept.

Desktop Apps

Claude Desktop and ChatGPT.app read local files and clipboard content silently, invisible to your web-layer DLP and CASB tools.

Terminal Tools

Developers send source code and secrets directly to AI through ollama run and Copilot CLI, with no browser proxy involved.

Local Models

Ollama, LM Studio, and llama.cpp run entirely off network, with no API key, no oversight, and no audit trail.

See It, Stop It, Prove It

Shadow AI turns Shadow AI from a blind spot into a governed, auditable part of your security program, without adding a new vendor or a new console.

Complete Visibility

Get a live inventory of every AI tool accessed across your organization, updated continuously as new tools appear.

Policy Control

Block any tool or entire AI category, such as AI Legal or AI Healthcare, across your organization with a single rule.

Audit Trail

Every AI request is logged, hashed, and timestamped for an audit-ready record from day one without capturing raw content.

Zero Install

Shadow AI runs the DNS layer inside Xcitium Secure Internet Gateway, so there is no endpoint agent to deploy or manage.

Live in Production Today

Shadow AI is not a roadmap promise. It is running inside Xcitium Secure Internet Gateway right now, cataloguing AI usage and enforcing policy in real time.

34+ Tools

AI services are auto catalogued, including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and DeepSeek, with new tools added as DNS resolves them.

82K+ Requests

AI requests were observed across a single organization in just seven days, most of them previously invisible to existing tools.

1,834 Blocks

Policy actions were enforced in that same window, including one AI Legal tool blocked at 94 percent by category rule.

0 Installs

Endpoint installs were required to achieve any of the above, since discovery and enforcement both run in the DNS layer.

Coverage That Follows the Device, Not Just the Network

Traditional security protects the devices you manage. Shadow AI does not stay inside that boundary, and neither does Shadow AI's coverage.

Managed Devices

Corporate laptops and workstations are covered automatically the moment their DNS resolves through Xcitium SIG.

BYOD Devices

Personal devices connecting to company networks are governed under the same policy, with no agent required on the device itself.

Contractor Laptops

Contractors and third parties are visible and governable without ever installing Xcitium software on their machines.

Remote Employees

Distributed teams are covered the same way as headquarters staff, since coverage depends on DNS resolution, not office location.

How Shadow AI Works
Discover

Shadow AI continuously identifies every AI application being accessed across your enterprise as DNS requests resolve.

Classify

Each AI service is automatically categorized by type, business function, and risk level for policy purposes.

Govern

Security teams apply centralized policy to allow, monitor, or block AI usage by tool or by category, in one rule.

Audit

Shadow AI generates a complete, searchable, timestamped record of AI activity for compliance, reporting, and investigations.

See Shadow AI on Your Own Network

Get a live walkthrough of your organization's actual AI exposure in under thirty minutes.

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Govern Enterprise AI with Confidence

Discover every AI tool your workforce uses, control every AI interaction with policy, and maintain an audit trail from day one. Shadow AI runs inside the platform you already own, so there is nothing new to buy and nothing new to manage.

  • Same console as your existing Xcitium deployment
  • Customer data never leaves your perimeter
  • Air-gapped deployment supported
  • Zero outbound calls from your environment
Frequently Asked Questions
Traditional CASB and DLP solutions focus on cloud applications and web traffic. Shadow AI extends visibility and governance to AI activity in browsers, desktop applications, developer tools, and local models that CASB and DLP were not built to see.
No. Shadow AI is powered by Xcitium Secure Internet Gateway and delivers AI discovery and governance in the DNS layer. It is active at the moment SIG is deployed, with no additional agent required.
Shadow AI currently catalogues 34+ AI services, including ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, Copilot, Ollama, Harvey, and Perplexity, and automatically adds new tools as DNS resolves them.
No. Shadow AI records AI activity and policy decisions without capturing raw prompt content. Events are hashed and logged for governance and audit purposes only.
Yes. Shadow AI governs AI usage from any device whose DNS resolves through Xcitium SIG, including remote employees, contractor laptops, and personal devices, with no agent required on the device.
No. Shadow AI is a capability inside Xcitium Secure Internet Gateway. There is no new vendor, no new contract, and no additional infrastructure to deploy.

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