Your staff are already using AI. You just cannot see it.
Shadow AI lockdown replaces uncontrolled tool use with one internal gateway. Pexon audits which AI endpoints your network actually reaches, routes them through a single controlled path that intercepts personal data and secrets, and logs prompts and outputs to a standard an auditor will accept.
Prohibition has already failed.
By the time a policy is written, confidential text has been pasted into consumer tools for months. Blocking endpoints moves the traffic to phones. The only workable answer is a sanctioned path that is easier than the workaround.
What the lockdown involves
Discovery
An audit of which AI endpoints your corporate network actually reaches, so the scale of current use is established from traffic rather than from a survey.
One gateway
A single internal path for AI traffic, intercepting personal data and secrets before anything leaves your boundary.
Audit-grade logging
Immutable records of prompts, outputs and the datasets involved — the evidence base regulators and your own auditors will ask for.
What changes
- Confidential material stops leaving through unsanctioned tools.
- You can answer what was sent, by whom, and when.
- Staff keep a capability they already rely on, through a route you control.
The audit alone usually changes the conversation internally, because the measured volume of existing use is almost always higher than leadership expects.
Governance questions
Will this stop people using AI?
No, and it should not try. The goal is a sanctioned path that is easier than the workaround. Prohibition without an alternative just moves the traffic somewhere you cannot see it.
How long are the logs kept?
That is your retention decision, not ours. The system is built so the answer is configurable and enforceable rather than incidental.
Not a sales call. An architecture call.
Thirty minutes with the architect who would actually run the engagement.