AI Governance Software — Shadow AI & Data Leak Monitoring

Traditional DLP was built around email, USB drives, and cloud uploads — channels that are well understood and already have rules written for them. AI chat tools are newer: an employee can paste a client contract, source code, or financial figures into a chatbot in seconds, and most companies have no visibility into it at all, let alone a policy anyone actually follows. That blind spot is what "shadow AI" refers to — AI tool use happening outside any sanctioned process.

NexGuard doesn't block AI tools outright — it flags large-paste events and AI tool usage as they happen, the same way it flags an unusual email attachment or USB transfer, so security teams get visibility instead of guesswork. That's enough for most companies to understand where the actual exposure is before deciding whether to restrict, allow, or set clearer guidelines.

This sits alongside DLP and insider risk scoring as part of the Shield plan and above — one more channel covered by the same agent, not a separate tool to deploy and monitor on its own.