Find and Manage Shadow AI

Identify and govern unsanctioned AI tools and agents before they expose your enterprise data.

Why It Matters

The rapid adoption of autonomous agents and LLMs often bypasses official IT procurement. When unsanctioned AI tool, aka “Shadow AI”, operate within your environment, they create invisible pathways to your sensitive data.

Ray Security allows you to:

  • Discover shadow AI tools accessing your data
  • Identify AI agents operating outside governance
  • Understand what data is being accessed by unknown AI systems
  • Bring AI usage back under control

Bring Shadow AI Into The Light

Shadow AI Discovery

Find AI Tools You Did Not Deploy

Continuously detect AI tools and agents that are active but unsanctioned, even those outside IT control. No agent required on the data source.

Data Access Mapping

See What Each AI Tool Accesses

For every discovered AI tool or agent, build a map of which data it has accessed, from which systems, and in what context. Understand sensitivity, volume, and access frequency.

Governance and Control

Control Unauthorized AI Access

Bring Shadow AI Under Policy Without Blocking the Business. Apply access controls, data restrictions, or blocking policies to unsanctioned AI tools.

How It Works

Continuous Shadow AI Detection

Ray Security monitors data access patterns, outbound connections, and integration activity to detect AI tools operating in your environment in real time. Detection covers tools inside your network, cloud-connected agents, and AI operating through personal or third-party accounts.

Risk Assessment and Remediation

Each discovered AI tool is assessed against your data sensitivity policies. Ray Security identifies what it accessed, whether that access was within acceptable parameters, and what action is warranted, from logging and monitoring to restriction or block. Security teams can act directly from the platform without manual investigation.

Enterprise Results: Shadow AI Under Control

Global Retail Enterprise
  • Discovered 40+ unsanctioned AI agents accessing sensitive product roadmaps
  • Centralized governance for authorized LLMs while blocking high-risk Shadow AI
  • Regained full visibility into the AI-to-data supply chain.
Technology Enterprise
  • Identified third-party browser-based AI tools scraping internal code repositories

  • Implemented automated blocking of unauthorized data exfiltration via agents

  • Maintained developer agility by providing secure, sanctioned AI alternatives.

Professional Services Firm
  • Audited all AI interactions across client-facing environments

  • Detected and removed unauthorized summary agents from sensitive video conferences

  • Ensured adherence to strict client confidentiality agreements regarding AI usage.

Financial Services Institution
  • Detected unauthorized agents analyzing internal financial forecasts

  • Identified specific proprietary datasets exposed to external LLMs

  • Enforced automated policies to redirect users to governed environments

More Use Cases

AI Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Monitor and control what information AI tools can retrieve, process, or relay, ensuring that data accessed by LLMs and agents stays within the boundaries your policies define. Prevent sensitive data from being exposed through AI interactions.

Reveal & Control AI Data Exposure

Gain full visibility into which data AI systems (LLMs, copilots, and agentic tools) are accessing data across your organization. Enforce access boundaries, maintain data lineage across AI interactions, and prevent AI from surfacing data it should not reach.

Reduced Data Exposure

Prioritize and reduce blast radius: cut data exposure by 90% with predictive protection. Focus on critical data for faster, broader, and more precise security (secure-by-default), even for partially unclassified data.

Data Access Audit & Investigation

See who accessed what and how. Investigate incidents with verifiable evidence. Meet regulatory audit requirements (SEC, HIPAA, GDPR, and more). Detect suspicious access early and respond confidently to customer and partner requests.

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