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Shadow AI Visibility AI tools nobody approved are already hiding in your environment.

Employees use ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and dozens more without approval. Adlumin surfaces every AI tool by user, machine, and process.

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20+
years protecting IT teams
25,000+
MSPs
9M
endpoints protected
360B
security events / month

The reality of Shadow AIThe real risks of AI showing up before anyone approved it

Employees adopt AI tools to work faster, and that helps. The problem: most arrive with no IT visibility, leaving security, compliance, and data handling in a blind spot no one meant to create.

Unsanctioned tool sprawl

Dozens of AI services adopted outside procurement or review. Not malicious, just unmanaged. And unmanaged means unprotected.

Unintentional data exposure

Source code, customer records, and internal docs pasted into AI tools no one knew were running. People don’t know what’s safe.

Compliance blind spots

Auditors now ask which AI tools touch your data. Without visibility, the honest answer is “we don’t know.” That fails audits.

Expanding attack surface

Browser extensions, IDE plugins, and background processes connect to AI backends on every machine. Most platforms never look.

How it works: the Adlumin answerVisibility into every AI tool, using telemetry already flowing

It runs automatically inside Adlumin. Nothing to install, run, or check: each AI service is detected, classified, and tied to the user, machine, and process behind it. No new agent, console, or cost.

Captures

Every AI tool, API call, or extension starts with a DNS query. Adlumin sees it the moment it happens, on every user and machine.

Classifies

Queries match a live catalog of known AI services, sorted by vendor, type, and risk: ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and more.

Attributes

Each detection ties to identity telemetry, pinning usage to a user, machine, and process. Data, not guesses, with an audit trail.

What you seeComplete AI visibility, built into the dashboard you use

Shadow AI data surfaces directly in Adlumin. No new tab, no separate tool.

Live AI tool inventory

Live AI tool inventory

Every AI service touched across browsers and endpoints, updated in real time and sorted by usage, user, or machine.

User, device, and process attribution

User, device, and process attribution

Not just which tool, but who used it, on which machine, and through which process. The granularity auditors expect.

Shadow AI as a compliance signal

Shadow AI as a compliance signal

Shadow AI tools appear in your Compliance Insights panel beside other risk indicators. Flagged, tracked, and audit-ready.

Continuously updated catalog

Continuously updated catalog

New AI tools, from emerging model providers to niche IDE extensions, added automatically as they appear.

What a typical Adlumin environment surfaces before any enforcement. Every team assumed the number was zero.

28
unauthorized AI tools
287
users
283
machines
53
processes

Built for your teamTurn AI visibility into action, whoever you are

Whether you secure clients or run IT in-house, Shadow AI Visibility fits how you already work.

Managed Service Providers
Show clients what’s running

Walk into your next QBR with a live AI inventory: 28 tools, 287 users. It closes upsells and earns advisor status.

Managed Service Providers
Lead compliance reviews

Shadow AI shows in Compliance Insights with other risks. Export attribution per user and machine. Answer regulators with proof.

Managed Service Providers
Launch a new advisory service

AI governance is a growing client expectation. Build a policy and governance advisory service on it, before competitors do.

IT Teams
Know what’s in your environment

Stop guessing which AI tools your team uses. Get a real-time map by user, device, and process, with no survey to send around.

IT Teams
Protect data without blocking work

Approve the safe tools, flag the ones that aren’t, and tell employees what’s allowed. Informed decisions, not a blanket block.

IT Teams
Report to leadership and auditors

Pull audit-ready reports in two clicks: Shadow AI usage by user, team, and tool, with the timestamps compliance needs.
Capability

Generic MDR

Adlumin

Shadow AI detection

Not addressed

Live inventory included

DNS-level AI traffic visibility

Endpoint only

Network telemetry, no extra agent

User & machine attribution

Tool-level only

Per user, per device, per process

Compliance Insights integration

Separate report needed

Built into the dashboard

Cost

Paid add-on

Included at no extra cost

Your AI inventory, audit-ready in two clicks.

Regulators and cyber insurers now ask which AI tools touch your data. With Adlumin, the answer is two clicks away: a telemetry-backed inventory, not a self-reported survey.

  • Evidence-backed inventory, continuously updated and defensible at every review
  • User-level attribution: who accessed which AI tool, when, and from which machine
  • Two-click export of compliance-ready reports, with no manual prep
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It’s already on the platform you run

Shadow AI Visibility doesn’t ask you to buy or deploy anything. It activates inside Adlumin automatically.

No new agent

Detection runs on existing DNS and network telemetry. Nothing to install or push to endpoints.

No new console

Shadow AI data lives inside your existing Adlumin dashboard. No extra login or training.

No extra cost

Included in your Adlumin deployment from day one. Zero added licenses. Already yours.

Privacy-aware

DNS metadata only. No deep packet inspection, no content analysis. Visibility without overreach.

Feature resources

Don’t guess what AI is running. Know.

Shadow AI is already active in your environment. Adlumin shows you exactly what it is, by tool, user, machine, and process. Already included.

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