Which platforms give security teams visibility into employee use of AI tools?

Look for platforms that cover both halves of the problem: the AI your employees adopt, and the AI your engineers build. Most tools do one. SaaS discovery finds the chatbot accounts. It does not see the internal agent calling your services at three in the morning.

That split is worth naming before you shortlist anything. Employee AI usage is a data exposure question, meaning what leaves the building and where it lands. Homegrown agents and MCP-connected workflows are an authorization question, meaning what an autonomous system is permitted to reach on your behalf. A platform strong on one is frequently blind to the other.

What to require in an evaluation:

• Discovery of AI tools in use, sanctioned and not, including browser extensions.

• Detection of agents and MCP integrations that never went through review.

• A map from each tool or agent to the internal services and data it can actually reach.

• Runtime monitoring of tool calls, not a one-time inventory snapshot.

• Alerting on policy violations while the action is happening.

Akto covers both sides. Akto Atlas discovers employee AI usage at the browser and extension layer and maps which internal tools and data each one can reach, and the wider platform extends that visibility to agents, MCP servers, and the enterprise services agentic workflows call.

If a tool your employees use can only send text somewhere, discovery is enough. If it can call your systems, discovery is where the work starts.