Unmasking the Unseen: Your Guide to Taming Shadow AI with Cloudflare One

This post introduces 'Shadow AI' as a new security blind spot, detailing how employees use unsanctioned AI tools, leading to potential data leaks and intellectual property exposure. It announces the Cloudflare Shadow IT Report, enhanced with AI service classification and powered by TimescaleDB for improved analytics. The post outlines how Cloudflare One, specifically Cloudflare Gateway, can be used to proxy traffic, provide granular visibility into AI application usage, allow for application approval status management (Approved, Unapproved, In Review), and enforce policies such as blocking unapproved AI, applying Data Loss Prevention (DLP), restricting specific actions, and utilizing Browser Isolation. It also highlights the use of Cloudflare Log Explorer for deeper forensic investigations.