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Find Every AI Tool Your Organisation Is Using — Sanctioned or Not

The average enterprise has 47 AI tools in active use. Most of them were never approved by IT or security. Kovral discovers all of them — in real time.

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IT Security
IT Security
Shadow AI Discovery
Shadow AI Discovery
Compliance
Compliance
The Problem

Shadow AI Is Your Biggest Blind Spot

Employees adopt AI tools at a pace security teams can't keep up with. ChatGPT plugins, coding assistants, AI-powered SaaS, browser extensions — each one is a potential data leakage vector that your DLP and CASB tools weren't built to see.

38
avg AI tools per enterprise — most unapproved
68%
of employees use AI tools not sanctioned by IT (Gartner, 2024)
$4.5M
average cost of a data breach involving shadow AI
How Discovery Works

Three Complementary Detection Methods

Kovral combines passive network analysis, SaaS scanning, and endpoint signals to build a complete picture of AI usage across your organisation.

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DNS & Proxy Analysis

Kovral maintains a catalogue of 800+ AI service endpoints. Passive analysis of DNS queries and proxy logs surfaces every AI tool in use — including tools routing around your proxy via mobile or VPN.

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SaaS OAuth Scanning

Read-only OAuth connections to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack reveal every AI-powered app your employees have authorised. We see the app name, connected accounts, and permission scopes.

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Network Fingerprinting

AI API calls have distinctive traffic patterns (token streaming, large payload sizes, specific endpoints). Kovral fingerprints these patterns to detect novel AI services even before they appear in our catalogue.

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Continuous Inventory

Every discovered tool is added to the AI inventory with metadata: who uses it, how often, what data categories it touches, and the risk score. The inventory updates in real time.

What You Get

A Complete AI Inventory With Risk Context

Discovery isn't just a list — it's actionable intelligence about which tools pose the most risk to your organisation.

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Tool Discovery

Every AI tool in use appears in the inventory — name, vendor, category, user count, first seen, last seen, and data sensitivity estimate.

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Risk Classification

Each tool is automatically risk-classified based on vendor security posture, data types accessed, geographic data handling, and compliance certifications.

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Policy Application

Apply your organisation's acceptable use policy to each tool with one click — approved, conditionally approved, or blocked. Kovral enforces the decision at the proxy level.

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Ongoing Monitoring

New tools trigger an immediate alert. Tool behaviour changes (e.g. a vendor updating their data retention policy) trigger a re-evaluation notification.

FAQ

Common Questions

No. Shadow AI discovery works through network-level signals (DNS, proxy logs, SaaS OAuth) and requires no endpoint agent. The SaaS OAuth scanning requires a read-only OAuth connection to your identity provider (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or Okta), which takes about 5 minutes to set up.
Yes. Once a tool is identified in the inventory, you can set its policy status to "Blocked" with one click. Kovral enforces the block at the proxy level for tools routing through your network, and can push a block policy to compatible SSE/SASE platforms (Zscaler, Netskope, Palo Alto Prisma) for complete enforcement.
Kovral's threat research team continuously monitors new AI product launches, domain registrations, and network traffic patterns to add new tools to the catalogue. The catalogue is updated daily. Customers can also submit tools for addition. If Kovral detects an unknown AI service via fingerprinting, it flags it for analyst review and adds it within 24 hours.
Kovral's network-based discovery covers managed devices and networks. For BYOD and personal devices, the SaaS OAuth scanning covers tools employees have connected to corporate identity providers, regardless of device. For full BYOD coverage, Kovral integrates with your MDM solution (Jamf, Intune) to extend discovery to personal devices accessing corporate resources.

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Social Proof

Trusted by Security Teams Worldwide

From Fortune 500 CISOs to fast-growing AI startups — teams protecting AI at scale choose Kovral.

★★★★★

"Kovral gave us our first real-time view into every AI tool running inside our bank. We found 34 unsanctioned models in the first 48 hours. The posture score is now a standing item on my CISO dashboard."

Marcus Reid
Marcus Reid
VP Security Engineering · Tier-1 Bank
★★★★★

"Our EU AI Act readiness went from 'we don't know' to a documented compliance posture in three weeks. The use case registry and automated evidence collection saved our team months of manual work."

Priya Nair
Priya Nair
Chief Compliance Officer · HealthTech SaaS
★★★★★

"The AI Firewall blocked a live indirect prompt injection attack on our customer-facing agent within the first week of deployment. Zero code changes, 1.8ms added latency. It's the easiest security win I've had in years."

Daniel Osei
Daniel Osei
Head of Platform Security · AI-native Startup

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