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use case · shadow ai

AI is already in your workplace. Make sure your data stays there.

Employees paste customer records, intellectual property, and strategy into AI tools every day. BlackFog ADX sees those interactions on the device and stops sensitive data from leaving, without banning the tools people rely on.

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Were data leaks to AI

THE SHADOW AI BIND

You cannot govern what you cannot see.

AI adoption is happening bottom up. Staff reach for whatever chatbot, browser extension, or AI note taker gets the job done, most of it unsanctioned and invisible to IT.

Network and cloud tools can miss these interactions because they happen on the device, often inside encrypted sessions. That is exactly where ADX operates: inspecting AI interactions on the endpoint and stopping sensitive data before it is sent.

WHERE DATA LEAKS TO AI

Four everyday AI habits that expose sensitive data.

None of these route through a channel your security team controls. Each one is caught on the endpoint, in real-time with ADX Vision.

PROMPTS

Pasting sensitive data into a chatbot

An analyst drops a customer list or unreleased financials into a consumer AI tool to summarize it. The data is gone the moment they hit enter.

ADX → inspects AI-bound input on the device and blocks sensitive data before transmission.

BROWSER AI

AI browser extensions and sidebars

An AI extension can access page content, including internal dashboards and records, and send it to a third-party model.

ADX → inspects outbound activity on the device and blocks sensitive data before it leaves.

AI NOTE TAKERS

Meeting bots that record everything

An unapproved AI notetaker joins a call and sends the transcript, including names, numbers, and sensitive business information to a third-party AI service.

ADX → surfaces the tool and stops sensitive data from being sent, based on policy.

CODE ASSISTANTS

Source code into AI helpers

A developer pastes proprietary code, credentials, or configuration data into an AI assistant for help debugging, putting sensitive IP at risk.

ADX → inspects AI-bound input on the device and blocks sensitive code and credentials before they are sent.

VISIBILITY FIRST

You cannot ban your way out of Shadow AI

Blanket blocks can push people to personal devices and other channels outside IT’s visibility. ADX Vision gives you visibility into AI use across the fleet, then enforces policy at the point of input instead of relying on the firewall.

WHY THE ENDPOINT

Governance that keeps AI productive.

ON-DEVICE

Sees input, not just traffic

ADX Vision evaluates AI activity where it happens, on the endpoint, so it catches data headed to AI even on unmanaged networks.

metadata, not content

Inspect, don’t retain

ADX Vision evaluates AI interactions on the device without retaining the prompts or files it protects.

ALLOW, DO NOT BAN

Enables safe AI use

Approve the tools you trust and let people work, while risky transfers are held back automatically.

governance

Ready for the EU AI Act and internal AI policy.

ADX Vision turns AI governance intentions into controls you can show, mapped to the obligations regulators and boards now expect.

Visibility

A live inventory of the AI tools in use across every endpoint, managed or not.

Data controls

Block sensitive data from reaching unapproved AI at the moment of input.

Auditability

On-device logging of blocked AI transfers gives you defensible evidence.

Acceptable use

Enforce your AI policy in practice, not just in a document nobody reads.

“The endpoint is where a person meets an AI tool. If you want to govern Shadow AI, that is the only place you can actually do it.”

Dr. Darren Williams, CEO BlackFog

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