Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control
Bitdefender launches AI Visibility and Control to track AI software on endpoints.
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Summary
Bitdefender has introduced GravityZone AI Visibility and Control (AIVC), a new tool designed to help organizations discover and manage AI software running on their Windows endpoints. The solution addresses the challenge of 'shadow AI' by identifying AI services accessed via browsers, AI tools within development environments, local AI model runtimes, and AI applications with connections to other systems. AIVC aims to provide administrators with a clear inventory of AI usage, user activity, and associated risks, going beyond traditional software inventories.
The lesson from this incident
Full lessonOrganizations are increasingly exposed to 'shadow AI' — unauthorized or untracked AI tools running on employee endpoints without IT oversight. These tools may silently transmit sensitive corporate data to external AI services, creating compliance and data leakage risks that traditional software inventories fail to detect. Without visibility into which AI applications, browser-based services, or local model runtimes are in use, security teams cannot assess or mitigate associated risks. The introduction of tools like Bitdefender's AIVC highlights a growing gap between AI adoption speed and organizational governance maturity. Unmanaged AI usage undermines data protection policies, access controls, and regulatory obligations.
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