What is shadow AI discovery?

Shadow AI discovery finds the AI running without security's sign-off: agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, and exposed credentials, across endpoints, cloud, and identity providers. Each lands inventoried and tied to an owner.

Does discovering shadow AI mean blocking it?

No. A discovered agent or MCP server can be sanctioned and brought under governance, or retired. You choose, so adoption keeps moving with control attached.

What happens to the exposed credentials it finds?

Discovery records that a credential exists and where, never its value. Securing it is a deliberate act with agentic vault: custody, then a managed reference in place of the plaintext.

How is this different from CASB, DLP, or EDR-based discovery?

Those watch traffic, data, and processes, and each assumes an identity is a person or a sanctioned app. C1 discovers the identities behind AI use and folds each into the governance you already run.

Shadow AI Discovery

Every agent, found and owned.

Each unsanctioned agent, MCP server, and credential gets an owner and joins the access workflows you already run.

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Agents are already running.

One in five organizations reported a breach due to shadow AI. 97% lacked proper access controls.

IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025

Discovery that leads to governance

Catch unsanctioned MCP servers

Instantly surface unauthorized local AI tools, MCP servers, and integrations installed across endpoints before they expose sensitive networks.

See every agent your team uses

C1's connectors find agents and service accounts from Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Entra, Okta, GCP, GitHub, Snowflake, Active Directory, and more. Each is linked to a verified identity.

Find every exposed key before it leaks

Shadow AI runs on live keys to real systems: model providers, clouds, databases. C1 surfaces each exposed credential and turns it into access you can own, vault, or revoke. The discovery can never become the leak.

One inventory for every identity discovered

Everything discovered lands in one identities & NHI (non-human identity) inventory: humans, service accounts, agents, and secrets, each with its creator, what it runs as, and its last use. Expired, expiring, and unused secrets surface before they become standing risk.

Govern every agent from discovery to de-provisioning

A discovered agent becomes a real access item, governed as a lifecycle rather than a one-time switch. Assign an owner, route it through request and approval, and de-provision what goes stale.

How C1 surfaces shadow AI

Connect your stack

Integrate cloud platforms, directories, and infrastructure, and deploy C1 to endpoints.

Discover what's running

C1 finds AI tools, MCP servers, and credential files on the device; connectors surface agents and service accounts across the cloud.

Assign every owner

Each discovery lands in the identities & NHI inventory, classified and tied to an owner who answers for it.

Govern or retire

Route what belongs through request, approval, and review, and de-provision what doesn't. No manual chase required.

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