Solution / Shadow AI
Find every AI tool your employees actually use.
Shadow AI is every AI tool used in your organization without approval or oversight, prompts pasted into ChatGPT, AI browser extensions reading internal documents, local models, coding agents calling internal APIs. Patronus discovers this usage directly on the endpoint, at the network layer, across every app and provider, including tools your security stack has never heard of. No cloud routing, no per-tool integrations.
Why your current stack can't see it
CASB sees the SaaS, not the prompt
Cloud access brokers know chatgpt.com was visited, not that customer data was pasted into it.
DLP sees encrypted bytes
Classic DLP inspects file transfers. AI prompts travel inside encrypted API calls it can't interpret.
Firewalls see a destination
A domain allow-list can't distinguish harmless AI use from an agent exfiltrating your source code.
How Patronus discovers shadow AI
Network-layer detection
A lightweight endpoint component identifies AI traffic across all apps and browsers, provider-agnostic, before encryption hides the signal.
AI inventory
Every discovered tool, model and provider lands in a live inventory: who uses what, how often, with which risk profile.
From visibility to control
Once usage is visible, define policies: allow, monitor, or block specific AI systems, enforced locally on the device.
Built for real environments
Any AI
tool, model or provider, no integrations needed
<10 ms
per AI detection, on-device
100%
local analysis, no cloud routing
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