BLACKSHIELD

AI Governance

Shadow AI Governance

Use this baseline to discover unmanaged AI usage, assign accountable owners, and prioritize the exposure patterns most likely to create policy, privacy, or operational risk.

What to inventory

Track LLM endpoints, model-provider accounts, AI plugins, and autonomous agents. Include source signal, environment, repository or account context, and whether the asset can reach the public internet.

What to govern first

Treat unapproved AI usage, public exposure, sensitive-data access, missing ownership, external sharing, and agent-triggered actions as the first baseline checks.

What to keep as evidence

Preserve owner mapping, approval status, risk flags, and remediation notes so security, engineering, and audit teams can follow the same control record.

Recommended operating flow

1. Discover AI assets continuously

Pull signals from code repositories, SaaS integrations, and cloud inventories on a recurring cadence so unmanaged AI usage appears in the same operating queue as other exposure data.

2. Assign ownership before approval

Every asset should have a named team or contact before it is allowlisted. Unknown owners make escalation slower and create blind spots during incidents or legal review.

3. Prioritize high-risk combinations

Escalate AI assets that combine public reachability with sensitive-data access, external sharing, or autonomous external actions. These pairings usually justify a finding and immediate remediation guidance.

Baseline control checklist

  • Every discovered AI asset is mapped to an owner, team, or escalation contact.
  • Approval status is explicit instead of assumed from code presence or cloud creation time.
  • Publicly reachable or sensitive-data-capable assets are reviewed before rollout expansion.
Shadow AI Governance