Shadow AI is the new shadow IT.
See all of it. Govern all of it.
Employees are already using AI tools your security team never approved. SecureHive's Shadow AI discovery finds that usage across the enterprise, enforces your policy per tool — monitor, warn, or block — and feeds every detection into the same governed AI inventory the rest of your program runs on.
Discover → Decide → Enforce → Prove
Discover
A lightweight browser extension surfaces AI usage where it actually happens — the browser.
- Built-in catalog of AI tools — ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Midjourney, and more
- Tenant-specific detection patterns for the tools unique to your environment
- Real-time detections in your Shadow AI dashboard
- Chrome, Edge, and Firefox support
Decide
Not every AI tool is a threat. Policy is a decision per tool, not a blanket ban.
- Three enforcement modes per tool — monitor, warn, or block
- Per-tool overrides from your central Tool Catalog
- Department-level policies for teams with different risk profiles
- Sanction a tool by registering it — detection becomes inventory
Enforce
Deployed and controlled by IT, not dependent on employee goodwill.
- Enterprise rollout via Google Admin, Intune, or GPO — force-install friendly
- Settings locked when admin-managed
- Heartbeats detect tamper or uninstall attempts
- Warn banners and block overlays employees actually see
Prove
Every detection lands in the platform that already runs your program.
- Detections feed the AI inventory for EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001 classification
- Real-time alerts on new shadow AI and posture drift
- Board-ready AI risk dashboards with trend analysis
- Evidence trails auditors and regulators can verify
Navigation metadata only. Never content.
The extension records which AI tools are visited — not what anyone types into them. No page content, no prompts, no form input, no credentials. Detections are batched and delivered to your tenant over HTTPS with signed integrity, and the full privacy disclosure ships with the extension. Governance that employees can live with is governance that actually holds.
Running in an afternoon
Shadow AI discovery is part of the AI Governance module — no separate product, no per-seat metering.
Deploy the extension
Push to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox through the enterprise tooling you already run — Google Admin, Intune, or GPO. Configuration ships with the policy; nothing for employees to set up.
Watch the inventory build itself
Detections stream into AI Governance → Shadow AI. Sanctioned tools get registered and classified; unsanctioned usage surfaces with the evidence attached.
Turn policy on
Start in monitor mode to see reality first. Move specific tools to warn or block as your acceptable-use policy firms up — per tool, per department, reversible.
Detection is step one. Governance is the point.
Standalone shadow-AI scanners give you another dashboard to check. In SecureHive, every detection lands in the AI Governance module — the same inventory, risk classification, policy engine, and board reporting that runs the rest of your security program. The question isn't just who's using ChatGPT — it's which AI systems are in the enterprise, what risk they carry, and who signed off.
Shadow AI, answered
What is shadow AI?
Shadow AI is the use of AI tools — chatbots, copilots, image generators, AI features inside SaaS — without the knowledge or approval of security and IT. It's the AI-era version of shadow IT, but it moves faster and carries new risks: sensitive data pasted into external models, unvetted vendors, and regulatory exposure under frameworks like the EU AI Act.
How is shadow AI different from shadow IT?
Shadow IT was unapproved software and infrastructure. Shadow AI adds a data dimension: the tool doesn't just exist unapproved, it actively ingests whatever employees give it — source code, customer records, strategy documents. And AI features now arrive embedded inside SaaS you already sanctioned, so the perimeter of what counts as an AI system is much blurrier.
How does SecureHive detect shadow AI?
A managed browser extension for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox matches navigation against a catalog of known AI tools plus patterns specific to your tenant, and reports detections to your SecureHive instance. From there, each detection can be registered, risk-classified against the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001, and put under policy.
Does it read what employees type into AI tools?
No. The extension collects navigation metadata only — which AI tool was visited, when, and from which managed browser. It does not capture page content, prompts, form input, or credentials, and its privacy disclosure is published for employees to read.
Should we block shadow AI or monitor it?
Usually: monitor first, then decide per tool. Blanket bans push usage to personal devices where you lose all visibility. SecureHive supports monitor, warn, and block modes per tool and per department, so you can sanction the tools that pass review and enforce policy on the ones that don't.
Find out what's already running
30 minutes with the founder. We'll show you the discovery dashboard, the policy grid, and what an EU AI Act-ready AI inventory looks like when it builds itself.