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Discover Shadow AI Across Your Enterprise

API Security for Public Sector

Instantly discover shadow AI Agents, AI tools and unauthorized GenAI usage operating outside IT oversight - including how they access and use your data.

Government APIs enable citizen services and critical infrastructure but also expose sensitive data and security risks. Akto helps agencies discover every API, detect vulnerabilities, classify sensitive data, and block threats in real time while ensuring compliance with standards.

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You Can't Secure What You Can't See

Only 21% of organizations maintain a fully up-to-date inventory of AI agents and MCP connections.

Unauthorized AI Usage at Work

Employees increasingly use GenAI tools, AI coding assistants without security approval, connecting them directly to corporate data, APIs, and internal systems.

Invisible AI Integrations

AI tools integrate with business systems through OAuth and APIs, creating hidden connections that bypass traditional security monitoring.

Rogue AI Agents

Autonomous AI agents operate with elevated access to SaaS platforms, APIs, and internal data - while bypassing IT governance entirely.

Complete Shadow AI Visibility. From Endpoints to Infrastructure.

Detect unauthorized AI usage, contain risky agents, and prevent shadow AI from spreading across your environment.

Discover Every AI Agent and Tool Across Your Workforce

Identify every AI Agent, AI tool, LLM, MCP server, Agent skills and coding assistant employees are using - sanctioned or not. Full visibility into who's using what and what data they're exposing.

Map Your Entire Agentic AI Stack with Context Graphs

Automatically discover every agentic asset across your cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environment. Visualize invocation paths, data flows, and auth dependencies in a live map while auto-classifying agents, MCP servers, APIs, and tools

Trace, Classify, and Assess Risk Across Every Node

Every discovered asset gets classified, scored, and mapped to its blast radius — so you know exactly where your highest-risk dependencies live.

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Akto Atlas SkillGuard

Detect and block malicious agent skills installed on employee endpoints.

Security for AI Coding Assistants, AI IDEs & CLIs Datasheet

AI coding tools open new attack vectors - learn how Akto secures them across IDEs, CLIs, and agentic workflows.

Shadow AI in the Enterprise

Discover and govern unsanctioned AI agents running across your organization.

FAQs

What is shadow AI?

Shadow AI is the use of AI tools, agents, and MCP servers inside an organization without IT, security, or compliance oversight - from browser-based GenAI tools to locally spun-up MCP servers and unapproved coding agents.

How is shadow AI different from shadow IT?

Shadow IT mostly risks data sprawl through unapproved apps. Shadow AI goes further: AI tools interpret data, generate content, and can act autonomously, introducing risks like IP loss, unintended data retention, and system behavior outside human review. It's also harder to detect with traditional network or SaaS discovery tools.

How does Akto discover shadow AI?

Akto (via Atlas) continuously monitors employee devices, browsers, IDEs, and desktop apps to identify all AI tools in use, detect developers spinning up MCP servers locally, and surface unmanaged agent activity — building a live inventory of your real AI footprint.

What happens after discovery?

Discovery is the foundation for governance: Akto lets you classify AI usage, assign a risk score, map what sensitive data each tool/agent can access, flag exposure, enforce policies, and block unsafe interactions (such as prompts leaking internal or customer data) in real time.

Will discovery and enforcement disrupt employees?

No. Akto is designed for safe acceleration: it gives security teams visibility and control while preserving employee and developer productivity.

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