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the problem
Few teams wait for approval to use new tools
Independent research shows the same pattern everywhere: adoption is outpacing discovery across SaaS, and AI is accelerating it.
55% of orgs say employees adopt SaaS tools without security’s involvement, yet 79% remain confident in their SaaS security.
CSA, State of SaaS Security Report, 2025
67% of employees using AI on corporate devices do so through non-corporate, personally owned accounts.
Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report
82% of organizations discovered AI agents running in their environment that they didn’t know about.
CSA, Autonomous but Not Controlled, 2026
43% of breached organizations had a security incident involving shadow AI, which is more than double the 20% reported last year.
IBM/Ponemon Institute, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026
WHAT IT COSTS
Every unknown tool becomes someone else’s problem to explain
Shadow IT stops being abstract the moment an auditor asks a question you can’t answer or an incident starts somewhere you weren’t looking.
You don’t know where your data is going
Customer records, financial data, and source code end up inside AI tools that nobody sanctioned or reviewed.
You can’t list the tools an auditor will ask about
A complete inventory is the starting point for any audit, and an incomplete one becomes a negative finding.
You find out after the damage is done
An incident inside an unknown tool is an incident you hear about from someone else, long after containment is possible.
You can’t enforce policy on an unknown tool
Every app outside your inventory operates under no rules at all, regardless of what your policy says.
the fix
Turn unmanaged tool adoption into a list you can act on
NordLayer Browser watches where SaaS and AI usage occur, monitoring internet activity across your organization so new tools show up on your list as your team adopts them.
A live inventory of every tool in use
Every web-based app and AI tool your teams use appears on one list that updates as adoption happens, so nothing is missed.
Evidence of who is using what
See which teams and users are interacting with each tool, when they use it, and how frequently they do so during each session.
An audit trail when you need one
Search through historical records with ease and quickly find the answers you need whenever an incident occurs or an auditor asks.
Awareness before the incident, not after
You assess a tool while it’s still a choice you can make, rather than finding out what it was holding after something has gone wrong.
How it looks in practice
Within the first week of deployment, one customer surfaced 30+ unsanctioned SaaS tools to handle company data, including 3 that were storing customer PII. None of the tools had ever gone through procurement.
HOW IT WORKS
3 controls that show what’s really running in the browser
Seeing what’s running is only half the job. Each control gives you the visibility and the means to act on what it finds.
Web activity monitoring
Continuous web browsing monitoring shows which web apps teams use during the workday, so new tools appear on your list as they’re adopted.
Extension tracking
See every browser extension installed across your organization, including what permissions it holds and which teams are running it.
Browser activity log
A searchable record of session activity gives you the evidence trail to investigate an incident, answer an auditor, or confirm what a tool was used for.
Know what web-based apps your employees are using
Get a full picture of your browser-based workspace in one place with the controls to act on what you find.
Additional info
Frequently asked questions
Shadow IT is any software, service, or account used for work without approval from IT or security. Shadow AI is the fastest-growing form of shadow IT. It usually starts with a legitimate need and a quick signup, often on a free tier or a personal account, so most of it never reaches a formal inventory. This is why tracking internet activity at the browser layer finds tools that procurement records and expense reports miss entirely.
NordLayer Browser observes activity at the browser, where tool adoption most frequently happens, rather than relying on network logs or spend data that only capture tools already known and paid for. When you monitor web activity across managed devices, you see the applications your team reaches in practice, including free-tier and personal-account signups that never generate a purchase record.
CASBs and SaaS management platforms work with network traffic or spend records, so they find tools already purchased or routed through corporate infrastructure. However, personal-account signups on free tiers generate neither, which is why browser-level visibility detects the adoption of tools that these platforms cannot see.
Every discovered tool can be reviewed, approved, or blocked at the domain level, and extension-level controls let you remove or restrict browser extensions without touching the endpoint.