AI Governance software.

Employees are already pasting customer records, source code and internal strategy into consumer ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini accounts that legal, security and IT never approved — usage that shows up in expense reports and browser logs long before it shows up in a risk register. The EU AI Act's governance obligations and existing GDPR processor rules both assume an organisation actually knows which AI systems touch its data; unmanaged shadow AI makes that assumption false from day one.

Detecting it requires more than a firewall rule blocking known AI domains, since sanctioned browser extensions and mobile apps route around perimeter controls. A workable governance layer inventories AI usage patterns across managed devices, classifies the data types involved, and gives compliance teams an approved-alternative path rather than a blanket ban that just pushes usage further underground.