
Discovering Shadow AI exposure with SMARE | CISO View
A CISO-level walkthrough of how SMARE discovers Shadow AI exposure across the enterprise and brings unknown AI assets into visibility.
WatchSMARE continuously discovers enterprise AI, including Shadow AI, establishes accountability and governance, observes agent behavior in near real time, and detects policy violations and behavioral drift with supporting evidence.

The Security Gap
Traditional controls establish identity, access and permissions. An AI agent can use valid credentials and approved tools while still acting beyond its intended business purpose.
Traditional security asks
The agentic question
Is this AI agent still behaving the way it was intended to?
Existing controls remain essential. The point is narrower: permission alone does not express business purpose.
Visibility
SMARE builds continuous visibility into the AI operating across your enterprise from configured and integrated sources — including Shadow AI — and the relationships between each part of it.



You can't govern what you can't see
Accountability & Governance
Once AI is visible, governance turns the inventory into an accountable record.



Design Intent
Design Intent is the approved expression of why an agent exists, the outcomes it may pursue, the assets and actions it may use, and the constraints it must respect. It is established and approved — not inherited from permissions, and not the same as a behavioral baseline.
What an approved Design Intent expresses

Behavioral Security
SMARE observes agent behavior in near real time, evaluates applicable organizational policies, and identifies meaningful departures from approved behavior — then preserves the evidence behind what it finds.




Policy Violation / Intent DriftActivity ContextInvestigation Evidence
How SMARE Works
Collect → Correlate → Govern → Detect & Share → Continuous Assurance. Each stage feeds the next, and the loop does not stop.
Collect
Telemetry comes from supported AI, cloud, application, identity and security systems.
Correlate
Build agent-centric context across inventory, topology and execution.
Govern
Establish accountability, apply organizational policies, and approve Design Intent and behavioral baselines.
Detect & Share
Surface policy violations, behavioral drift and supporting evidence to supported enterprise workflows.
The workflow is a loop, not a one-time sequence. New assets, changed topology and evolving behavior continuously update governance and security context.
THE MISSING CONTROL LAYER
Your existing security stack provides essential controls for identity, access, infrastructure, data and security events. SMARE adds the missing agent-centric control layer — establishing what AI is operating, how it is intended to behave, and whether its observed behavior remains aligned with that intent.
Enterprise context / telemetry
SMARE
Security & governance workflows
Delivered through supported integrations and APIs.
Enterprise
Resources
Product demonstrations, technical perspectives and practical guidance for security teams navigating agentic AI.
Videos
Guides & Whitepapers
Articles & Perspectives
FAQ
Next Step
A working session for security and AI leadership on discovering enterprise AI, establishing accountability, and governing agent behavior with evidence.
Start with a Scoped Evaluation