Shadow AI & Trade Secret Protection
Your people are already using AI. The question is whether your source code, trade secrets and material non-public information are going into consumer chatbots along with it — and whether any of it is an unbounded agent nobody classified.
Core services
Protecting IP from unvetted employee AI use.
Shadow AI is rarely malicious — it is a motivated employee reaching for a faster tool. Policy that is understandable and enforceable beats a prohibition nobody reads.
AI Acceptable Use Policies
Handbook addenda defining approved tools, input-data classification rules, and strict prohibitions on pasting source code, trade secrets or MNPI into consumer LLMs.
Approved Tool Registries
Auditing data egress and establishing clear white/blacklists of enterprise-grade AI tools.
AI Literacy Compliance
Role-based training frameworks designed to satisfy emerging AI literacy mandates, including the EU AI Act.
Trade Secret Hygiene
Preserving trade secret status when information has been exposed to third-party model providers.
Incident Playbooks
What to do the day you learn a confidential document was pasted into a public model.
Board Reporting
Translating shadow-AI exposure into terms a board can actually act on.
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