Shadow AI discovery: find every AI tool and AI agent in use

Find all the AI in use across your organization: AI used in the browser, desktop AI apps, AI apps connected to Microsoft 365, and AI agents. See how risky each one is, including the tools nobody approved. Discovery starts in monitor mode, so nothing changes for your users while you build an accurate inventory.

What is shadow AI?

Shadow AI is any AI tool used without IT approval: a personal ChatGPT account, an AI browser extension, a coding assistant or an AI feature inside another app. Each one can send company data to a provider you have not reviewed. Governance gaps are common: in IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, 68% of breached organizations had no AI governance policy or were still developing one.

What discovery shows you

Connect your sources

Import firewall and DNS logs and connect Microsoft 365 for a first view of AI on your network, on desktops and in connected apps.

Deploy in monitor mode

Push the browser extension silently through your device management tools. It records AI usage and changes nothing for users.

Review the inventory

See each AI service ranked by risk, with vendor details on data training and processing location.

Decide and enforce

Approve the AI you want to keep, block the rest in the browser, at your firewall and in Microsoft 365, and protect sensitive data in the tools you allow.

Start with a two-week look

Discovery starts with two weeks in monitor mode, with nothing blocked. You get a risk-ranked view of every AI in use, then decide what to enforce. Ask for a free shadow AI assessment to get started.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is shadow AI?

Shadow AI is any AI tool your staff use without IT approval, such as a personal assistant account, an AI browser extension, a coding agent or an AI feature built into another product. The risk is that company data reaches an AI provider nobody has reviewed.

AILeakShield runs in monitor mode first. It records which AI services are used, in the browser, on desktops through your RMM and in Microsoft 365, so you can build an inventory, and it never blocks or changes anything for your users.

Yes. Discovery looks beyond the browser: desktop AI apps show up through your firewall and DNS logs, Microsoft 365 shows which AI apps users have granted access to company data, and AILeakShield identifies AI agents and the systems they connect to. Everything lands in one risk-ranked inventory.

Yes. Import firewall and DNS logs and connect Microsoft 365 to see the AI services your network reaches, desktop AI apps, and the AI apps your users have connected to Microsoft 365, before you install anything on user devices.

You decide which AI tools to approve. AILeakShield then enforces that decision with real-time warnings and blocking, AI policies your staff sign, and an approval workflow that writes straight to enforcement.

AILeakShield is sold through IT providers and distribution, so pricing comes from your provider. Shadow AI discovery is part of every subscription, together with discovery, control, protection and compliance. Contact us for a quote or an introduction to a partner.

Say yes to AI, safely.

AILeakShield discovers all the AI in your environment, blocks the AI tools you have not approved, and keeps sensitive data out of the prompts sent to the ones you have.