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Agent 02 · AI exposure & shadow AI

See what your AI can see.

The fastest-growing source of exposure isn’t an attacker, it’s everyday AI use. VenusHawk makes it visible: what sensitive data is reaching AI, where AI is being used unseen, and what your own AI agents can actually touch, so you can adopt AI with confidence instead of banning it out of fear.

The agent, thinking

It watches the moment AI meets your data.

A contract pasted into a chatbot, an unapproved tool a whole team relies on, an agent with far too much reach, caught as it happens. This is the AI agent reasoning, condensed.

AI agent · reasoning live
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Fastest-growing source of new exposure, everyday AI use
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Content sent to a third-party model to understand it
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Live picture of every AI touchpoint across the org
The new blind spot

AI adoption outran your security.

Every team wired AI into their day faster than anyone could govern it. The exposure isn’t coming through the firewall, it’s walking in through a chat tab.

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Data walks into AI

Sensitive content is pasted into assistants and agents that may train on it or store it forever.

02

AI shows up unapproved

Whole teams adopt tools nobody vetted, shadow AI you can’t govern because you can’t see it.

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Banning isn’t an option

Block AI and people route around you. The answer is visibility, not a wall.

Three questions, answered continuously

What’s reaching AI. What’s unapproved. What AI can touch.

AI adoption moves faster than security maturity ever could. VenusHawk turns that blind spot into a live picture across three questions.

Exposed to AI

What sensitive information is reaching AI assistants, agents and third-party services, understood in the moment, at the browser and endpoint.

Shadow AI

Where AI is being used across the org, including the tools nobody approved, who’s using them and what data they touch.

What AI can reach

What your own AI agents and automations can actually access, and the blast radius if one is misused or prompt-injected.

Customer PIIFinancialSource codeContractsSecrets
Shadow AI, mapped

Discovery, not a blanket ban.

You can’t govern what you can’t see. VenusHawk finds every AI tool in real use across the org, sanctioned or not, and tells you who’s using it and what it touches.

Shadow AI register · discovered in usecontinuously updated
SHADOW
A consumer AI chat · personal accounts42 people across Sales & Engineering, pasting customer and deal data daily.
APPROVED
The sanctioned coding copilotOn the approved list, monitored, with sensitive repos scoped out.
SHADOW
An unknown ‘AI note-taker’ botJoined three meetings this week, recording and transcribing to an outside service.
SCOPED
An internal RAG agentApproved, but its standing access to the entire customer share was far broader than its task. Scoped down.
Every tool found is mapped to who’s using it and what data it touches, then approved, scoped or routed to a safe alternative. Discovery, not a blanket ban.
Governance in the moment

Caught at the browser, before it leaves.

A contract full of PII pasted into a consumer AI chat is understood the instant it happens, the user warned in the moment, the event logged for governance, the exposure contained.

AI exposure logLive · browser & endpoint
AI-1042Browser · AIA contract full of PII pasted into a consumer AI chat.User warned in the moment; event logged for governance. Governed
AI-1039Shadow AIAn unapproved AI tool in daily use by a whole team.Discovered and mapped; routed to an approved alternative. Governed
AI-1031AI agentAn automation with standing access to a sensitive share.Over-broad reach flagged; scope recommended down. Governed
AI-1024PromptA code assistant pulling from a repo full of secrets.Sensitive repo scoped out of the assistant’s reach. Governed
Why it’s different

Adopt AI with confidence, not a blindfold.

Most tools either block AI outright or ignore it entirely. VenusHawk gives you the third option, see it, understand it in place, and govern it.

Sees the moment, live
Catches sensitive data reaching AI at the browser and endpoint, as it happens, not in a log next week.
Understands in place
The content is read and judged inside your environment; only the derived verdict ever leaves.
Finds shadow AI
Discovers the unapproved tools whole teams already rely on, and who’s feeding them what.
Governs your own agents
Maps what internal AI agents can reach and scopes them down before a prompt injection turns access into a leak.
Enables, doesn’t block
Routes people to safe, approved tools instead of banning AI and pushing it into the shadows.
Part of the constellation
Ties to Data and Dark Web: the same information VenusHawk classifies is the information it keeps out of AI.
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