Generative AI arrived faster than any company policy. Most teams now use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini every day, and most security teams have no idea what goes into them.
What actually leaks
It is rarely malicious. It is people trying to get work done:
- An engineer pastes a stack trace that contains an API key or a database URL.
- Finance uploads a salary sheet to get a quick summary.
- Sales drops a customer export in to clean up a list.
- Someone photographs an ID card and asks for the details to be typed out.
Each one is a reasonable shortcut, and each one moves sensitive data somewhere you do not control.
Why blocking alone does not work
Blocking every AI tool sends people to their phones and personal laptops, where you see nothing at all. A better first step is visibility: find out what is really happening, then decide.
How Aavishield handles it
See what reaches AI tools. Aavishield DLP inspects uploads and messages on the device, including to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. It detects credentials, source code, card numbers, PAN, Aadhaar and whole documents such as salary sheets and contracts, using OCR for images and scans.
Do not interrupt work. DLP is monitor-only. It records the finding and a short masked preview, never a copy of the file.
Decide which tools are allowed. With the Web Gateway's AI tools category and custom domain lists, you can allow the tools your company has approved and block the rest, per team.
A simple starting plan
- Run a pilot with DLP switched on for a week.
- Look at which AI tools appear and what kind of data reaches them.
- Write down which tools are approved, and share it with employees.
- Use the AI tools category to allow those and block the rest.
Read more in How data loss prevention works.