Shadow AI Detection Across Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Tools
Most ungoverned AI use runs through applications the organization already approved, reached through personal accounts that no directory registers. Kovrr's AI Security and Governance Platform identifies shadow AI at the session level, whether a person or an agent opened the tool, resolving the account behind it, what data reached it, and whether an enterprise agreement covers what happened next.
The Tool Was Approved. The Session Was Not.
A personal-account session on a licensed platform defeats three controls at once.
Identity: No event is recorded because neither a personal account nor a service token is a registered application.
Network: The traffic resolves to a sanctioned app on an uninspected tunnel, indistinguishable from governed use.
Policy: Enterprise terms, retention, and legal hold cover the workspace and not the session.
How Kovrr Detects Shadow AI
Kovrr's AI Interaction Data Fabric resolves shadow AI at the session level, whether a person or an agent opened it. Network traffic establishes the destination, identity signals name the principal, and the browser supplies the account and the data.
Account-Level Resolution: Sessions on a licensed platform are separated by the account behind them, corporate tenant or personal tier.
Detection Without Decryption: Findings hold where traffic is uninspected, because the browser reads what the tunnel conceals.
Data Classification at the Prompt: 500+ validated categories identify what reached each tool, matched deterministically.
Vendor Terms Resolved: The AI Vendor Risk Catalog supplies training, retention, and agreement status, so exposure is scoped.
Named Attribution: Anonymous AI sessions resolve to named users, including agent sessions running under a service token when no identity provider is recorded.
A Shadow AI Detection Traced Back Through Every Source
An issue in the AI Interaction Data Fabric Insights series works through one shadow AI detection end to end, naming what each telemetry source held, what it could not tell you, and where the exposure became reportable.
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