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Shadow AI is everywhere. Here’s how to find and secure it.

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Why This Matters

As AI tools become ubiquitous in organizations, managing and securing shadow AI—unsanctioned or unnoticed AI applications—has become a critical challenge for the tech industry. Solutions like Nudge Security enable continuous discovery, real-time monitoring, and proactive governance, helping organizations mitigate risks associated with untracked AI usage and ensure security compliance for consumers and enterprises alike.

Key Takeaways

AI tools are everywhere now and used by virtually everyone in your org. For IT and security teams, that means the job has shifted from "should we allow AI?" to "how do we secure and govern it?" And that's no small task.

New AI tools and integrations are added constantly, usually without any knowledge or oversight from IT.

To manage this new hidden source of risk, you need a system that gives you continuous discovery, real-time monitoring, and proactive governance without requiring a full-time team dedicated to tracking down every new AI tool. That's exactly what Nudge Security delivers.

Here’s how it works:

Day One: Get a full inventory of AI apps and users

First things first—you can't secure what you can't see. Nudge Security gives you Day One discovery of every AI app and account ever introduced to your org, even those added before you started using Nudge. No surveys, no guesswork, no relying on people to self-report (because let's be honest, that never works).

You'll get a complete picture of your AI landscape from the moment you start.

How it Works

Nudge Security’s shadow AI discovery works through a lightweight integration with your IdP (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace). It takes less than 5 minutes to enable this integration ,and once that’s in place,

Nudge Security analyzes the machine-generated emails sent by SaaS and AI app providers (think [email protected]) to document activities like creation of new accounts, password changes, changes to security settings, and more.

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