iboss Launches AI Security Platform for Shadow-AI Visibility and GenAI Data Controls

iboss, an SSE/CASB data-security vendor, has launched a free-tier “AI Security Platform” aimed at the shadow-AI problem practitioners keep running into: employees pasting sensitive data into tools nobody sanctioned. The free tier discovers and risk-classifies GenAI usage — ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, plus desktop apps like Cursor — across endpoints, and attributes prompt/response history back to individual users.

The actual data-loss-prevention capability, however, is gated behind the paid tier. That’s where iboss positions AI-policy enforcement, leak prevention, and governance of AI agents, all running on the same gateway engine it already uses for web and email DLP.

The move worth noting for DLP/SSE buyers is the packaging: free shadow-AI discovery as a wedge to seed a GenAI-DLP upsell. If you’re already evaluating email/web DLP or a broader SSE stack, free visibility into unsanctioned AI usage is genuine leverage — a low-friction way to quantify exposure before committing budget. It’s also a clean data point on how incumbents are racing to bolt GenAI controls onto existing gateways rather than stand up net-new tooling.

Caveat worth keeping in view: this leans heavily on free discovery, which is closer to AI-usage governance than to enforcement. The prevention half — the part that actually blocks a leaking prompt — is the paid product. Treat this as a product-direction signal on how gateway vendors are absorbing AI controls, not a category-shifting DLP launch. Worth a confirmation read of the iboss release to lock the exact paid-tier DLP claims before you build it into a shortlist.