Shadow AI security
Find where employees use unsanctioned AI tools, block sensitive data in prompts, and monitor activity across every endpoint.
Employees use AI tools without oversight, exposing sensitive data through prompts, uploads, shares, and clipboard actions that bypass traditional security controls.
Uncontrolled AI tool usage
Marketing, developers, and HR adopt free consumer AI tools before IT sees a request. There is no license, no procurement checkpoint, and no visibility into who uses what.
Sensitive data exposed in prompts
Employees paste customer records, source code, and contracts straight into chat boxes. Traditional DLP inspects files and email, so prompt content sails past it.
Limited visibility into endpoint activity
Most AI use happens in the browser, where there is no app to catalog and no API call to inspect. Security teams cannot see the data leaving.
Inconsistent policy enforcement across endpoints
Rules that work on managed Windows machines miss macOS, Linux, offline devices, and personal laptops, so coverage is full of holes.
Prevent data loss to AI tools with real-time endpoint controls
Netwrix Endpoint Protector inspects data in motion across browsers, apps, and endpoints, then blocks or alerts on transfers to AI tools based on content sensitivity, user identity, and destination. Shadow AI detection turns governance from a policy document into an enforced control, on Windows, macOS, and Linux, online or offline.
Block sensitive data in AI tools
Prevent users from entering sensitive data into AI prompts with context-aware policies that inspect content and block risky actions in real time.
Gain visibility into AI usage
Monitor how users interact with AI tools across browsers, apps, and endpoints. Detect shadow AI activity early with detailed logs and reporting.
Enforce policies without disrupting work
Apply granular controls based on user, data type, and application. Allow approved AI tools while blocking risky behavior to maintain productivity.
Protect data across all endpoints
Enforce consistent DLP policies across Windows, macOS, Linux, and offline devices to eliminate gaps in hybrid and remote environments.
Features that eliminate shadow AI
Compare endpoint DLP to other shadow AI security tools
Web proxies, CASBs, and integrated DLP tools have limited control over data loss to AI tools because inspection happens at the network layer, after data has already left the device. Netwrix's endpoint DLP solution inspects AI prompts, uploads, and clipboard actions across Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, capturing exfiltration attempts at the moment of user action, even offline.
Endpoint DLP vs. other shadow AI security tools
WEB PROXIES, CASB, INTEGRATED DLP
Other Shadow AI security tools
COMPREHENSIVE, MULTI-OS ENDPOINT DLP
Netwrix Endpoint Protector
Cross-platform protection
⊗ Limited support across mixed environments, inconsistent feature parity across operating systems, and no protection for offline endpoints.
✓ Dedicated, native endpoint agents for Windows, macOS, and Linux ensure consistent Shadow AI protection and feature parity across operating systems, even when offline.
Real-time AI Protection
⊗ No support for prompt inspection or requires a separate add-on.
✓ Inspects AI prompts and file uploads in real time and enforces data protection policies at the endpoint, preventing sensitive data from leaving the device and reaching large language models, independent of AI provider controls.
Policy-based shadow AI security
⊗ Limited control over over how AI tools process sensitive data or lacks granular policy management and deployment framework across mixed operating systems.
✓ Detects and governs the use of sensitive data, including PII, financial data, source code, MIP-labeled content, and custom defined information, using configurable policies that can block, audit, or alert AI related data exposure.
Sensitive data discovery at rest
⊗ Sensitive data discovery for shadow AI security requires separate tool, add-on, or is absent entirely.
✓ Mitigates shadow AI risk by scanning for sensitive data at rest on endpoints and applying remediation actions, such as encryption or deletion.
Netwrix Endpoint Protector
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Netwrix Endpoint Protector
Content-aware data loss prevention built for the AI era. Endpoint Protector runs across Windows, macOS, and Linux, online and offline, and feeds alerts into existing SIEM and SOAR workflows. Detailed reports map events to GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, and CMMC 2.0.
Netwrix Endpoint Protector blocks sensitive data uploads to AI tools across endpoints and browser sessions.
