Picture an iceberg. The AI your leaders can name — the approved chatbot, the tool with a signed contract — is the tip above the water. Below the surface sits everything nobody logged: the free account someone opened last Tuesday, the AI feature a vendor switched on inside software you already pay for, the assistant a team wired up over a weekend. That hidden mass is shadow AI, and it’s usually far larger than the visible tip.
It matters for one reason: you cannot manage, or prove you’re managing, what you can’t see. Regulators and insurers are no longer satisfied by “we’re careful.” They want to see that you know where AI lives and who is accountable for it. You can’t write that down for the part of the iceberg you never knew existed.
SanctumShield’s first job is to raise the whole iceberg into view — the tools you declared and the ones a shared destination list reveals — and then help you prove you’re managing what’s there.
You answer plain questions. SanctumShield turns them into proof you can show.
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