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# Visibility and Shadow AI Guardrails

## Visibility

Subrosa provides visibility into all AI activity in your environment.

Traffics related to AI interactions are captured and recorded, and displayed under `Traffic Log` for usage trend analysis, reporting and investigation purpose.

## What's Shadow AI

AI interactions to unsanctioned AI softwares is known as Shadow AI. Shadow AI can accelerate risks of breaches and sensitive data leaks. In addition to the security risk, the use of unapproved AI tools can lead to a wasteful duplication of efforts across teams and unnecessary expenditures

## Subrosa Shadow AI Guardrails

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This feature is under canary release. If you're interested, please reach out to <hello@subrosa.ai> for more information
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Subrosa monitors all AI traffic including sanctioned and unsanctioned AI software in your environment; meanwhile, providing guardrails on shadow AI traffic via detecting and protecting outgoing data with Policy ([read more](/policy/manage-policy.md)) . \
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The platform also offers traffic-level visibility and trends of Shadow AI usage in your organisation. &#x20;


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