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Discover and monitor workforce AI usage wherever it occurs.
AI is everywhere, and teams are exhausted trying to track what employees use and upload. Proactive monitoring helps you understand AI usage before something goes wrong.
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Why Harmonic for shadow AI
See every tool, before something goes wrong
Harmonic continually monitors for employees using unapproved AI tools or agents. That includes visibility into the prompts and data shared with them, giving you the context to apply intelligent controls rather than blunt blocks.
01Discover
Detect unapproved AI tool use
Continuously discover and categorise every AI tool in use. Create approved and monitored groups to instantly identify new, unapproved tools and see adoption trends as they build.
Use those real-time insights to inform your AI governance committee and guide employees toward safe, sanctioned tools.
02Assess risk
Understand AI tool risk in seconds
Stop manually researching every new AI app. Harmonic provides instant risk profiles for each tool, covering data policies, training practices, geographic HQ and other key risk factors.
That saves your security team hours of triage and vendor management on tools that appear faster than they can be reviewed.
03Personal accounts
Restrict use of personal accounts
Granular controls let you restrict personal or free accounts for corporate work, without cutting off the tools people genuinely need.
Inline small language models sit on the endpoint to detect and redact sensitive data before it can be submitted.
Top resources
Resources for security teams tackling shadow AI
How teams are getting ahead of unsanctioned AI without resorting to blanket blocks.
Customer story
Advisor360 on shadow AI
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Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about shadow AI
Short, direct answers to what security and IT teams ask before bringing Harmonic in.
Why can't security teams just block all AI tools?
AI is embedded in approved productivity tools like Google Translate, Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce, so blocking AI would block core business functions. Employees will also use personal devices and accounts when corporate access is restricted, creating greater shadow AI risk.
Can Harmonic Security detect personal agents like Muse and OpenClaw?
Yes. Harmonic Security detects personal agents such as Muse and OpenClaw, along with other agents running on employee workstations, through our endpoint agent.
What is Harmonic Security's technical differentiator?
Harmonic uses purpose-built small language models that understand user intent and sensitive data in milliseconds. This low-latency analysis lets you understand AI usage and enforce inline controls without slowing work down.
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Build your AI guardrails for shadow AI
Gain the visibility and control you need to guide AI use with confidence. Most teams see first insight in about 30 minutes.
What you'll see with Harmonic Security
- Your full AI usage footprint: every surface, every team, every exposure.
- Inline guardrails that coach, warn, or block — firing in under 200ms.
- See and control what AI agents are actually doing.
- Coverage of browser, endpoint and MCP.
- Deployment in minutes via Intune, JAMF, or Kandji.
