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AI Security

Governing how your business builds, deploys, and uses AI — so productivity gains don't come at the cost of your data walking out the door through a chat window.

Why it matters

Your data policy didn't account for AI. It needs to.

Generative AI tools moved into the workplace faster than most security teams could write a policy for them. Employees paste customer data, contracts, and source code into public AI assistants every day — not out of malice, but because it's the fastest way to get something done.

At the same time, AI is showing up inside your existing systems: copilots in productivity suites, AI features bolted onto SaaS tools you already pay for, and increasingly, AI agents that can take action on your business systems rather than just answer questions. Each of these is a new way for data to move, and a new thing that needs a policy.

What this includes

What AI security actually covers

  • Visibility into which AI and generative AI tools are actually in use across your organization — most security teams are working from an incomplete list.
  • Policy that governs what data can be shared with which AI tools, enforced at the point of use rather than after the fact.
  • Governance over AI systems your own teams build or deploy — who owns them, what they can access, and how that access is reviewed.
  • Monitoring for unusual access patterns where AI tools or agents touch sensitive systems.
How we deliver this

How we approach it

We don't treat AI security as a brand-new program bolted onto your stack. For most clients, it's an extension of controls you already have — the cloud security and data-loss prevention policies we implement can be extended to cover generative AI applications, the same way they already cover cloud storage and email.

We start by finding out what's actually being used today, because policy without visibility is just a document nobody follows.

Where you're already running a cloud security platform like Netskope, AI application visibility and policy enforcement is typically an extension of that platform — not a separate purchase.
Self-check

You may have a gap here if…

  • Nobody in your security team can name the AI tools your employees use day to day.
  • There's no written policy on what data can or can't go into an AI assistant.
  • An AI tool or copilot has access to business systems that nobody formally reviewed.
  • Your last data-handling policy was written before generative AI was part of daily work.

Not sure where you stand on this?

Run the free regulatory assessment, or talk to the team that implements this for a living.