What is
AI DLP?
AI DLP (AI Data Loss Prevention) is a security technology that detects sensitive and proprietary information in prompts, files, clipboard data, and browser inputs sent to generative AI services — and prevents them from being leaked.
Why AI DLP Is Now Essential
Employees actively use generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and GitHub Copilot for work. However, in this process, sensitive corporate information — customer data, source code, contracts, financial data — can be transmitted to AI services.
Traditional DLP solutions cannot address this problem. Designed for email, USB, and file transfers, they lack the ability to understand AI prompt context and cannot detect AI assistant usage in IDE environments or for remote workers.
AI DLP emerged to fill this gap. It detects sensitive data across the entire generative AI usage flow — prompt input, file attachment, clipboard paste — and enforces enterprise policy through blocking, warning, or logging.
Core AI DLP Capabilities
Key security capabilities provided by endpoint-based AI DLP.
Inspects text employees type into AI tools before transmission to detect sensitive content.
Detects PII, contracts, and internal documents in files attached to AI services.
Detects sensitive data pasted into AI tools via clipboard.
Automates block, warn, mask, or log actions based on enterprise policy.
Automatically discovers and logs unsanctioned AI tool usage unknown to IT.
Records all AI usage and policy violations for compliance audit purposes.