AI Exposure & Governance
Understand your risk. Build your framework. Adopt with confidence.
Your employees are already using AI. The question is whether you know which tools, what data they're sharing, and who's accountable when something goes wrong.
The AI exposure problem is already inside your walls
Employees are already using AI tools that IT never approved and pasting sensitive business data into them, and organizations without governance pay measurably more per breach.
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Your employees are already using AI tools that IT never approved. According to ISACA and UpGuard, 59% of workers now rely on shadow AI for everyday tasks, from summarizing meetings in ChatGPT to uploading financial reports into tools no one has reviewed.
The data leaving your walls is worse than you think. Kiteworks found that 77% of AI users have pasted sensitive business data into these platforms, including source code, client records, and personally identifiable information. Most organizations have zero visibility into any of it.
Inaction carries a measurable price tag. IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach report shows that organizations without AI governance pay an average of $670,000 more per breach than those with established programs.
Published figures and their sources
| Figure | What it measures | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 59% | of employees use unapproved AI tools at work | ISACA / UpGuard |
| 77% | of AI users have pasted sensitive business data into AI tools | Kiteworks |
| $670K | additional breach cost for orgs without AI governance | IBM 2025 |
How we help
Five practice areas that cover the full lifecycle of AI governance, from initial discovery through ongoing incident response.
- AI Governance Frameworks
Build enforceable AI policies grounded in the NIST AI RMF. Define roles, acceptable use boundaries, and review processes that scale with your organization.
- AI Security & Threat Assessment
Identify vulnerabilities in your AI toolchain before attackers do. Evaluate prompt injection risks, model poisoning vectors, and data exfiltration paths across your environment.
- AI Discovery & Vendor Risk
Map every AI tool in use across your organization, approved or not. Assess vendor data practices, retention policies, and training opt-outs to build a complete risk picture.
- Safe AI Adoption Programs
Give your teams sanctioned AI tools with proper guardrails. We design rollout plans, training programs, and acceptable use policies that turn shadow AI into a governed asset.
- AI Incident Response
When an AI system leaks data, produces harmful output, or violates policy, your team needs a playbook. We build response plans, conduct tabletop exercises, and prepare you for the incidents that governance alone cannot prevent.
Our approach
- Every engagement builds on the NIST AI RMF and its four core functions.
- Recommendations have been tested in production across public agencies, healthcare, and financial services.
- Recurring assessment cycles, policy reviews on regulatory change, and dated re-measurement.
- The five service areas are modular, scoped to what matters right now.
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Every engagement builds on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and its four core functions: Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage. That gives you a defensible, vendor-neutral foundation whether you're answering to a board, a regulator, or a customer audit.
Frameworks on paper don't protect anyone. Every recommendation we deliver has been tested in production across public agencies, healthcare systems, and financial services organizations. When we tell you a control works, we've seen it work under pressure.
We also build for evolution. A governance program designed for today will be obsolete within a year if it is not structured to adapt. Our programs include recurring assessment cycles, policy reviews when the regulations change, and re-measurement that sets each new score beside the dated one before it.
We meet organizations where they are. Some clients come to us suspecting shadow AI exists while others have mature security programs and need to extend them into AI. The service areas above are modular, and we scope engagements around what matters to your organization right now.
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