Know Your AI: Detect and Remediate Shadow AI
The AI on your network is not the AI you approved. Employees adopt new AI tools faster than security can vet them, and proprietary source code, customer PII, and regulated data flow into external endpoints without anyone knowing. That is not a discipline problem. It is an inventory problem.
Shadow AI Is Now the Norm, Not the Exception
Shadow AI refers to unauthorized AI tools used within your organization without IT or compliance approval. It is the single largest blind spot in enterprise security, and it is growing faster than any other category of shadow IT.
Invisible Adoption
Employees sign up for AI tools with a personal email and a credit card. No procurement. No security review. No visibility for IT.
Data Exposure
Proprietary source code, customer PII, financial records, and regulated health information flowing into unvetted external AI endpoints.
Delayed Detection
Incidents surface weeks later with an incomplete audit trail. A quiet vendor policy change can shift your exposure overnight without warning.
Cost and Governance Are Both Downstream of Inventory
The tools driving unmanaged spend are the same ones creating unmanaged risk. A living, attributed record of every AI tool, its data, its users, and its usage is the precondition for attributing spend and for evidencing compliance. Kanawai builds that record continuously, so one connection answers the questions the CFO, the security team, and the compliance team are all asking.
Discovery, Auditing, and Automated Remediation
Kanawai AI operates at the application layer through scoped, least-privilege authentication (OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, OIDC). No endpoint agents and no changes to your cloud environment, whether your AI tools run on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or are SaaS applications.
Detect What's Approved and What Isn't
Kanawai distinguishes sanctioned, enterprise-approved AI from shadow AI, attributes usage to departments and users, and classifies the data each tool touches.
- Separate sanctioned AI from unsanctioned tools
- Attribute usage to specific users and departments
- Classify data exposure: PII, PHI, financial, IP, legal
- Unsanctioned tools flagged the moment they appear
Live Shadow AI Feed
Autonomous Remediation in Under 60 Seconds
When Kanawai detects a violation it executes the full response sequence autonomously. Containment in seconds rather than days, with human approval available for higher-impact actions.
Integrates with your existing stack
Kanawai orchestrates the controls already deployed in your environment.
Forescout
Okta
ArmadinImmutable Evidence Artifacts
Every governance action produces a cryptographically signed, tamper-evident artifact with a documented chain of custody. The evidence is produced as a by-product of operation, not reconstructed after the fact.
- Cryptographic hash and digital signature
- Trusted timestamp for every action
- File manifest classified by sensitivity
- Verified chain-of-custody log
- Ready for audit, legal, and insurance review
Questions You Will Be Able to Answer
With Kanawai AI, every stakeholder gets the answers they need from a single connection.
What AI exists on our network?
A continuously updated inventory of every AI platform, tool, and agent, attributed to departments and users.
What shadow AI exists on our network?
Unsanctioned tools flagged the moment they appear, classified by risk and by the data they touch.
Who are our heaviest AI users?
Consumption ranked by user, team, and activity across every connected provider. See power users, unused seats, and concentration risk.
Are we using the right models?
Where a workload runs on a more expensive model than its use case requires, Kanawai recommends alternatives by cost or utility.
What data is exposed?
Every AI tool classified by the data it touches: PII, PHI, financial, intellectual property, and legal material.
Can we cut our AI bill?
Cost and utility-based model recommendations, plus identification of waste and duplicate spend across all providers.
Why Kanawai AI
Deploys Without Disruption
Kanawai operates at the application layer through scoped, least-privilege authentication. No endpoint agents and no changes to your cloud environment, whether your tools run on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Full Picture in 48 Hours
Connect your environment and Kanawai surfaces your AI estate, shadow AI, data exposure, utilization, spend, and compliance risk within 48 hours, across 16+ integrations today and expanding.
A Private AI Brain That Compounds
We correlate a knowledge graph of the AI vendor landscape with a private graph of your organization, reasoning about cost and risk at the level of a specific tool, data flow, and user.
Evidence You Can Defend
Every governance action produces a cryptographically signed, tamper-evident artifact with a documented chain of custody, ready for audit, legal, and insurance.
Shadow AI Is a Compliance Problem Too
Regulators have made shadow AI expensive. An organization that cannot name the AI on its network cannot classify it, govern it, or prove compliance. Kanawai maps every AI system to applicable frameworks and surfaces gaps for review.
EU AI Act Compliance
Penalties up to 7% of global turnover
The EU AI Act applies extraterritorially. Kanawai maps your AI systems to risk tiers, assigns accountability, and monitors data exposure to satisfy Articles 5, 6, 10, 12, and 26.
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NIST AI RMF, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, FedRAMP
Shadow AI remediation is one pillar of a broader governance program. Kanawai maps to the NIST AI RMF natively and continuously monitors your AI deployments against every major regulatory framework.
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