Looking to manage generative AI risks across your organization? Only Nudge Security uncovers shadow AI and automates guardrails for safe AI adoption as part of a complete SaaS security and governance solution.
Nudge Security delivers workforce AI security and governance as part of a complete SaaS security solution. Our unrivaled discovery methods uncover shadow AI use through email analysis, connected apps, and a browser extension, giving you a historical and continuous inventory of AI tools, users, activities, and integrations.
What’s more, Nudge Security detects AI use across your SaaS supply chain, so you can quickly see which of your business-critical apps rely on third-party AI providers under the hood. And, with our app-to-app integration monitoring, you can easily identify risky and overly permissive data access granted to AI tools, including remote MCP servers.
Nudge Security doesn’t stop at discovery. Purpose-built AI governance playbooks allow you to quickly and easily enforce your generative AI policies, with automated AI guardrails in the browser and chat that guide your workforce toward safe, compliant AI adoption just in time.
A surge of new AI security startups have emerged recently to address risks like shadow AI, AI data loss prevention, and prompt injection monitoring. These solutions often attempt to broadly solve for “All things AI” across the enterprise, ranging from discovering shadow AI to masking PII in chatbot prompts to addressing model security and performing AI security posture management (AI-SPM).
Using a variety of AI discovery methods, such as browser extensions, endpoint agents, or integrations with existing AI providers, some solutions focus on mapping and monitoring AI use across an organization, while others concentrate on protecting AI models against attacks like prompt injection or masking sensitive data before it’s sent to an AI model. Most share a common goal: preventing exposure of sensitive company data during AI use.
Sample vendors in this space include Harmonic Security, Unbound Security, Lasso Security, Prompt Security, and Aurascape, with new players and incumbent security vendors entering this emerging market frequently.
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Full AI and SaaS visibility on Day One. Nudge Security uses our patented email-based discovery approach to provide a full, continuously updated inventory of every SaaS and AI app and account within minutes of starting a free trial. So far we’ve discovered over 175,000 SaaS and AI apps.
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Incomplete AI-only discovery. Each AI security point solution uses its own method for discovering dedicated AI tools, potentially missing off-network activity, personal device sign ups, OAuth grants, or any historical activity. The most we’ve seen any of them uncover is around 16,000 apps.
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Protect sensitive data across all types of workforce AI. Nudge Security gives you visibility into which AI tools have programmatic access to your sensitive SaaS data—like source code, email, and files—and detects when that data is exposed through risky file uploads in prompts. Security teams can also evaluate new apps, revoke risky integrations, and uncover which SaaS tools embed third-party AI with full AI supply chain visibility.
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Monitor individual prompts while sensitive data remains exposed. Most AI security point solutions focus narrowly on the interaction level; masking, intercepting, or analyzing prompts. This leaves bigger data risks unchecked, like sensitive data flowing into SaaS tools with embedded AI, agent-to-agent integrations, and MCP servers. This means critical exposure points outside of prompts remain invisible and unprotected.
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Enable productivity across workflows. Nudge Security engages SaaS and AI owners—and users—directly in Slack, Teams, email, and in the browser. With customizable nudges, organizations can guide behavior, educate employees, and assign tasks in the flow of work, driving secure adoption and resolution without blocking productivity.
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Limited enforcement, limited opportunities. Point solutions typically rely on a single, point-in-time enforcement point, like a prompt warning that delivers standard-issue guardrails. This misses historical AI use, such as abandoned AI projects and OAuth grants that leave lingering access. Without broad coverage and context-aware guardrails, this leaves security teams with risky blind spots.
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Build an AI governance framework that scales. Nudge Security helps organizations review and categorize AI apps, set clear policies (like acceptable use policies), and enforce them consistently using our nudging guardrails. The result: a scalable governance framework that keeps pace with AI adoption, reduces risk, and supports compliant, responsible use.
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Plugging holes isn’t quite AI governance. Point solutions that focus on prompt masking, AI mapping, or model security act as quick fixes attempt to patch symptoms without addressing the root problem. Instead they provide a false sense of security while leaving organizations without a concrete foundation for governing AI use at the workforce edge.
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Complete SaaS and AI security and governance. Workforce AI security is a SaaS security challenge as AI spans all of the SaaS apps your workforce uses on a daily basis. Address SaaS security, AI governance, third-party risk management, and SaaS spend management with one powerful solution.
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Fragmented tools, bigger costs. AI point solutions fail to acknowledge AI security as a SaaS problem. You’ll have to buy and manage multiple tools for SaaS security, AI governance, and more. The result is higher cost, more complexity, and a riskier tech stack.
AI is quickly becoming a core part of how employees work, bringing with it both increased productivity, and new security risks that employees have the potential to introduce to your org. Shadow AI, data leakage, prompt injection, unauthorized access, and non-compliant use of AI are just a few of them. To combat these new risks, point solutions for AI security have appeared seemingly overnight, each narrowly targeting a single risk.
This siloed approach leaves AI security only partially covered. AI is no longer just an isolated set of tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity, it’s embedded directly into the everyday SaaS applications your workforce already relies on. That makes it impossible to separate AI security from SaaS security.
These point solutions also add another layer to already overloaded security tech stacks. Every new AI security provider creates additional management overhead while addressing only a fraction of the risk. Most of these tools focus narrowly on prompt traffic, leaving the rest of the SaaS environment unprotected.
On top of everything else, the discovery methods themselves are incomplete and varied. Browser-based monitoring, for example, may capture some activity but misses what happens in mobile apps, desktop clients, and API-driven integrations. Without historical context or cross-platform visibility, you’re left with blind spots.
‍‍AI security cannot exist without a strong SaaS security foundation. Effective AI security requires core SaaS security best practices like asset discovery, posture management, and continuous monitoring across the entire ecosystem, not just individually built controls applied to the most recent AI tool introduced to your org.The truth of the matter is that AI security cannot and will not be solved in isolation. Protecting your organization requires a platform that governs the full SaaS ecosystem, AI included, so IT and security teams can manage risks holistically, not just patch over chatbot prompts.
Nudge Security discovers your entire existing SaaS estate (including all AI apps!) within minutes through email discovery and continuously builds and enriches it through real-time browser-based user data and additional SaaS discovery methods. Learn more
Nudge Security shows you which AI and SaaS apps have access to your sensitive data. Know when sensitive information is being uploaded to AI tools, and identify which AI tools are integrated with other applications in your environment.
Evaluate new and existing AI tools as they enter your environment. Create scalable AI governance policies that grow with adoption, and implement real-time guardrails that automatically enforce your guidelines. Learn more
Engage with your employees using just-in-time interventions to actively guide them toward more compliant AI and SaaS decision making wherever they are: the browser, Slack, Teams or email. Learn more
