See the AI your employees actually use
Employees adopt AI faster than any policy can follow. Shadow AI Detector reconciles the signals you already have — Purview sensitivity labels, DLP and network exports, usage trackers, and the tools you have declared and governed — into one honest picture of ungoverned AI, reported directly into your governance dashboard.
signal sources: Purview, security exports, usage trackers
endpoint scripts or agents to install
governance dashboard where every finding lands
Shadow AI Is Your Biggest Blind Spot
Your employees are adopting AI faster than your governance can keep up. ChatGPT Desktop is running on laptops. Ollama is serving local models. Developers are calling DeepSeek and Groq APIs from scripts. Marketing installed three Chrome extensions that send company data to AI services you've never heard of.
This isn't malicious. It's enthusiasm. But ungoverned AI usage creates real risk: sensitive data leaking to unvetted services, gaps in your compliance record, and exposures your team doesn't know exist.
Shadow AI Detector works from the signals your estate already produces — no endpoint scripts, no agents to install. Connect Microsoft Purview to read sensitivity-label signals on AI interactions, upload DLP or network-log exports from the security tools you already run, and reconcile declared usage against the AI estate you have declared and governed. Cross-vendor usage trackers complete the picture with anomalies no one declared.
When an ungoverned AI tool surfaces, it lands as a finding in your governance dashboard. Your admin reviews it and brings what is real into the governed AI estate — with an owner, a risk classification, and the evidence behind your EU AI Act Article 26 deployer record.
Before and After Shadow AI Detection
Without Shadow AI Detection
- Employees use ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity without IT knowledge
- No way to see where sensitive company data is meeting unvetted AI services
- AI API keys scattered across teams: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek calls untracked
- EU AI Act compliance blind spot: you can't govern what you can't see
With Fronterio Shadow AI Detection
- Ungoverned AI surfaces from the signals you already have: Purview, DLP exports, and usage trackers
- Your declared tool inventory reconciled against actual usage — the gap is your shadow AI list
- Sensitivity-label signals show where company data meets ungoverned AI, with no endpoint agents and no packet inspection
- Detected tools become governance findings: register what is real, investigate, or dismiss
Four Signal Sources, One Dashboard
Purview Sensitivity Signals
Reads Microsoft Purview sensitivity-label signals to show where labelled company data is meeting AI tools — including the tools nobody registered.
Network Intelligence
Upload DLP and network-log exports from the security tools you already run. Fronterio parses them for traffic to known AI services and turns every hit into a governance finding. No packet inspection, no new infrastructure.
Declared Usage Reconciliation
Compares your declared, governed AI estate and team usage against what the signals actually show. The difference is your shadow AI — named, scored, and ready for triage.
Usage Tracker Anomalies
Your cross-vendor usage trackers (Copilot, Gemini, Claude) flag what doesn't add up: activity in tools no one registered, or spikes that match no governed initiative.
Governance Triage
Surfaced AI tools become findings in your governance dashboard, scored and de-duplicated. Admins review each one and bring what is real into the governed AI estate — tools and agents alike, under their own identity.
Leadership-Grade Reporting
Findings roll up into your governance dashboard and board pack: how much AI runs ungoverned, what came onto the governed floor this quarter, and the evidence trail behind it.
Connect Signals, Triage Findings, Govern
Connect Your Signals
Connect Purview, upload DLP or network exports, and switch on the usage trackers you already have. No endpoint scripts, no MDM rollout, nothing to install.
Automatic Reconciliation
Fronterio reconciles the incoming signals against your declared, governed AI estate. Ungoverned AI stands out automatically.
Findings Triaged
New findings land in your governance dashboard, scored and de-duplicated, ready for review.
Govern & Approve
Bring tools onto the governed floor: register what is real, investigate unknowns, dismiss false positives. The decision is stored on the finding itself, and a dismissed tool stays dismissed on every future scan.
“You can't govern what you can't see. Shadow AI detection transforms invisible risk into visible, manageable governance, closing the gap between employee AI adoption and enterprise oversight.”
How Shadow AI detection works
Enterprise Feature
Shadow AI Detector is part of the connected estate, available exclusively on the Enterprise plan.
Stop Shadow AI Before It Becomes a Problem
Connect the signals you already have and see the ungoverned AI in your organisation, with no endpoint agents and no user disruption. Just honest visibility.