BlackFog was founded in 2015 on a single thesis: the endpoint is the last line of defense for data leaving an organization. Whatever exfiltration channel emerged, through encrypted browser sessions, into cloud services, or through emerging AI tools, the only place to stop it would be on-device, at the packet layer, before the data left.

We pioneered anti data exfiltration (ADX) and the market has validated it three times.

In 2019, when Maze ransomware introduced double extortion and the industry realized that backups don’t stop data theft, our architecture was the answer. Today, 96% of ransomware attacks involve exfiltration, and BlackFog is the category leader in preventing it.

In 2024, when shadow AI emerged as the fastest-growing data loss vector in enterprise history, our architecture was already the answer. ADX Vision extends the same on-device engine into a full shadow AI control plane: discovery, governance, prompt-level policy, and real-time prevention of sensitive data flowing to any AI endpoint.

In 2026 and beyond, as autonomous AI agents gain authenticated access to enterprise systems, the same control point will stop agentic exfiltration. We built the architecture once, a decade ago. The market keeps catching up to why it matters.

Shadow AI exposes the limits of every other architectural starting point. Network-layer tools like CASB and SWG are blind to conversational data moving through encrypted browser sessions to legitimate LLM domains. Browser extensions only work on managed browsers and miss personal devices, unmanaged endpoints, and embedded AI inside approved SaaS. API gateways only see sanctioned enterprise AI deployments, not the consumer tools employees actually use.

Endpoint-native ADX sees everything: managed and unmanaged browsers, embedded AI features inside approved SaaS, personal devices on corporate networks, offline and air-gapped environments, and the autonomous agents emerging in developer workflows. We don’t compete with EDR, DLP, or CASB, we complete those stacks by enforcing policy at the final egress point those tools were never built to see.

BlackFog’s ADX platform protects 500+ organizations across financial services, healthcare, professional services, education, and government, including deployments through Carahsoft into U.S. federal, state, and local agencies. Our category-defining primary research, including the 2026 BlackFog/Sapio Shadow AI study and the annual State of Ransomware report, is among the most-cited in the industry, with coverage from CSO Online, Help Net Security, Cybersecurity Dive, and Gartner Peer Community discussions.

Industry recognition includes the teiss Awards 2026, AI Excellence Award 2026, Cyber Security Excellence Awards 2026, MSP Today Product of the Year 2025, multiple Globee Awards for AI-driven data protection, and the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award for AI-based Cybersecurity Innovation of the Year.

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