Shadow AI and High-Risk AI Resources

AI is moving faster than most governance models, and leadership teams are under pressure to support innovation without losing oversight. This September, AIBound is joining Cybovate and BlinkOps for an exclusive executive breakfast series across Zurich, Düsseldorf, and Munich focused on how organizations can embrace AI while maintaining visibility, control, and accountability. Learn more and register here.

Niall Browne, Founder and CEO of AIBound, will share practical insights drawn from leadership roles that included serving as CISO at Palo Alto Networks and Workday. Alongside a moderated discussion led by Andreas Wuchner, the sessions will focus on enterprise AI governance, operational resilience, and the real-world challenges security and technology leaders are already facing as AI becomes embedded across business workflows.

Designed for CIOs, CISOs, and technology leaders, each breakfast session is intended to create space for honest discussion, peer exchange, and practical action rather than vendor-led product presentations.[user query] Attendees can expect a focused conversation on governance, risk, and accountability in an environment built for senior executive dialogue.

Event dates and venues:

- Zurich, Pier 7 Restaurant, 8 September 2026

- Düsseldorf, Industrie Club, 9 September 2026

- Munich, Cafe Glockenspiel, 10 September 2026.

Additional details and registration are available on Cybovate’s registration page.

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AI risk has moved rapidly from an emerging concern to a board-level priority. Across South Africa, security leaders are being asked to account for how AI is being used inside their organisations, what data it touches, and who is ultimately responsible when risk crosses the lines between technology, culture, and the board.

On 20 August 2026, AIBound is joining SS-Consulting and KnowBe4 in Sandton, Johannesburg for an exclusive, closed-door roundtable with 15 of South Africa's most senior CISOs and security leaders. This is not a conference. There are no presentations, no sales pitches, and no audience, just a carefully curated group of peers and a facilitated conversation focused on the issues keeping security leaders up at night.

The discussion will explore how organisations are discovering and governing enterprise AI, how they are managing human risk and cloud email exposure as primary attack vectors, and how they are establishing clear accountability and governance across the business. The goal is a frank, practical exchange between people who are facing these challenges right now, rather than a theoretical overview.

Attendance is strictly by invitation and seats are limited to 15. If you are a senior security leader in South Africa and would like to be considered, invitations and confirmations are handled by SS-Consulting. Reach out to your AIBound contact or SS-Consulting to request a seat at the table.

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Click here to sign up for the webinar

AI is being adopted across the enterprise faster than most organizations can govern it. Employees are turning on new AI tools, sensitive data is flowing into models, and AI is increasingly shaping decisions, often without clear oversight of where it is used, what risks it creates, or who is ultimately accountable. The gap between AI adoption and AI governance has become one of the most pressing challenges facing security, legal, and risk leaders today.

In this upcoming live webinar, AI Governance in Practice: From EU Law to Enterprise Control, AIBound brings together three leading voices to move the conversation from theory to action:

- Annick O'Brien, General Counsel at CybSafe and an award-winning expert on EU AI law, regulation, and AI governance.

- Niall Browne, Founder and CEO of AIBound, a five-time CISO whose roles include SVP and CISO at Palo Alto Networks and Chief Security and Trust Officer at Workday.

- Andreas Wuchner, Cyber and risk expert, board advisor, and investor with more than 25 years of experience, who will moderate the session.

Together they will explore what the EU AI Act means in practice, how organizations can move from unmanaged shadow AI to governed AI, and what security, legal, and channel leaders need to do right now. This is a practical conversation about law, risk, visibility, and control, and the concrete steps required to govern AI responsibly.

Whether you are a CISO, CIO, legal or risk leader, or a channel partner (MSP, MSSP, reseller, or consultant), this session will give you a clear framework for turning AI risk into accountable, defensible governance.

Reserve your spot using this registration link

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SAN FRANCISCO — July X, 2026 — AIBound, the AI security company, today launched IntentSentry, a new product that inspects both Agents, and the "skills" running inside a company's AI assistants and flags the ones that are dangerous. On its very first day of use IntentSentry uncovered thousands of malicious skills — hidden instructions built to steal passwords, access high-risk systems, or quietly leak sensitive information.

Companies increasingly rely on AI assistants, such as Claude to get work done, and to do those jobs an AI assistant loads small add-ons called skills, instructions that teach it a single task, a bit like installing an app on your phone. But skills are easy to create and share, and a bad one can use everything the assistant can reach: its logins, its access to company systems, and its ability to send money or export files. Because the harmful instructions are written in plain language rather than obvious code, ordinary security software walks right past them. One bad skill is all it takes to hand an attacker the keys to a company's systems.

The risk is growing fast because AI assistants are being adopted faster than companies can keep track of them. Industry analyst Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four company security breaches will be caused by AI assistants being misused or abused (Gartner). For a business, the stakes are straightforward: a single malicious skill can lead to a data breach, financial loss, regulatory fines, and lasting damage to trust, often without anyone noticing until it's too late.

IntentSentry closes that gap by reading every skill a company's AI assistants use and judging what it is actually trying to do, not just how it looks on the surface. Just as important, it judges intent in context, so teams see the skills that are genuinely dangerous rather than a flood of false alarms.  Because harmful skills hide their intent in ordinary language, IntentSentry examines both the plain-language instructions and the underlying actions together, so it can spot a skill that is quietly trying to steal passwords or ship HR data out of the company even when it appears perfectly normal. In early use, it caught real skills that would have caused a breach if allowed to run: one disguised as a routine helper that was secretly copying a developer's private security keys, another that tricked the assistant into ignoring its own safety rules. Both map directly to the OWASP Agentic Security Initiative's Top 10 for AI agents, spanning risks like prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, and excessive permissions that legacy scanners aren't designed to catch.

"Malicious skills are the biggest new blind spot in enterprise AI, and the danger is that they hide in plain sight — the harmful part is written in everyday language, so traditional security tools walk right past it," said Niall Browne, Co-founder and CEO of AIBound and former Global CISO of Palo Alto Networks and Workday. "IntentSentry found thousands of these in a single day that everyone else had missed."

"We treat every skill as untrusted and read it the way an attacker would, combining deterministic checks with layered AI review that verifies its own conclusions, so a skill that tries to talk its way past the scanner only flags itself faster," said Sunil YC, head of engineering at AIBound.

"For the first time, we can actually answer what our AI agents are allowed to do, and who told them to do it. IntentSentry flagged risky skills in our environment that nothing else had caught," said a CISO at a health care provider.

AIBound helps companies find every AI assistant in use, understand what each one can access, score how risky it is, and automatically stop the dangerous ones before they cause harm. With IntentSentry, that coverage now extends to the instructions inside each assistant — closing the loop from the moment an AI appears to the moment a threat is stopped.

IntentSentry is available now to AIBound customers.

SAN MATEO, CA -- March 27, 2026 -- AIBound, an AI security platform, today launched Guardian, a living AI risk registry that profiles every AI application across hundreds of risk dimensions -- from data exfiltration and compliance violations to model provenance and supply chain exposure. Guardian powers AIBound's security Control Plane, giving security teams continuous, risk-ranked visibility into the 50,000+ AI apps proliferating across their enterprise.

"Today, every person in your company is experimenting with AI -- and rightly so," said Niall Browne, CEO of AIBound and former CISO at Palo Alto Networks and Workday. "AIBound gives security teams the platform to finally get ahead of it, turning AI from an uncontrolled risk into a business enabler. The moment a critical AI threat emerges, Guardian alerts your team with the context they need to act. No more chasing alerts. No more days in the dark."

Guardian goes beyond discovery. Each application receives a dynamic risk score that updates continuously as new threat intelligence, vulnerability disclosures, and compliance requirements emerge. When a high-risk application is detected, AIBound's Control Plane instantly enforces policies, notifies security teams, or prevents access -- closing the gap between detection and response.

According to Gartner, by 2027 more than 40% of enterprise data breaches will involve AI-powered tools or AI supply chain exposure. Yet until now, no comprehensive registry existed to catalog, classify, and risk-rank the thousands of AI applications proliferating inside enterprise environments. Unlike traditional CASB or SaaS security tools that rely on static allow/block lists, Guardian continuously scores every AI application against a living risk database -- delivering real-time intelligence that evolves as fast as the AI landscape itself.

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How Guardian Works

Guardian operates across browser, endpoint, network, and cloud -- detecting AI application activity wherever it occurs. Every detected application is instantly scored against AIBound's proprietary risk database, the largest of its kind. When a high-risk application is identified, AIBound's Control Plane takes over -- automatically triggering the appropriate response across endpoints, cloud, and SaaS environments.

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Proven in the Field

"When critical vulnerabilities emerged in OpenClaw -- the widely deployed open-source AI agent -- and LiteLLM -- the AI gateway present in over a third of cloud environments -- most security teams spent days manually tracking down exposure across their environments," said Browne. "Our customers running AIBound's Guardian had a very different experience. Within minutes, every affected organization was notified with full risk context and the ability to block or contain the threat in near real-time. Days versus minutes -- that gap is where breaches happen. Guardian closes it."

One tech CISO recently described the impact: "AIBound gave us an immediate heads-up that many devices were running OpenClaw. We didn't see this in any other tool. It definitely showed leadership the value of AIBound."

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About AIBound

AIBound is Your Control Plane for Secure AI — enabling enterprises to embrace AI innovation without compromising security. AIBound gives enterprise security teams the definitive AI risk registry with over 50k AI applications cataloged, risk-ranked, and continuously scored for business impact. Powered by the industry's most comprehensive AI risk intelligence, AIBound helps CISOs know exactly which AI apps are running, how risky they are, and what to do about them -- before threats become incidents. Co-founded by Niall Browne, former CISO at Palo Alto Networks and Workday. Learn more at www.aibound.com 

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‍AIBound Exits Stealth at RSA, Launching The Control Plane To Detect and Prevent AI Risks in Real-Time

Founded By Former Palo Alto Networks and Workday CISO, AIBound Secures AI Everywhere: browsers, endpoints, networks, and cloud

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San Francisco, Calif., March 18, 2026 – AIBound, an AI security platform, emerges from stealth at this year’s RSA Conference. The Control Plane for secure AI gives companies the ability to both detect and prevent AI risks everywhere – across browsers, endpoints, networks, and cloud – while safely accelerating AI‑led innovation. 

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“AIBound was born from hundreds of conversations with the world's leading CISOs that exposed a tension every CISO knows: companies must embrace AI to stay competitive, yet staff are adopting AI faster than security and IT teams can secure,” said Niall Browne, CEO and co-founder of AIBound. “Today, every person in your company is experimenting with AI — and rightly so. AIBound gives security teams the platform to finally get ahead of it — turning AI from an uncontrolled risk into a business enabler.”

As a five-time Global CISO in Silicon Valley, Niall led security at Palo Alto Networks—the world's largest cybersecurity company—and Workday, the global leader in enterprise cloud HR and finance trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500. He has advised global boards of directors on cybersecurity risk, and partnered with governments and law enforcement on critical infrastructure protection.

“Security teams are being asked to both enable AI innovation and control its risk, often with legacy security tools that were never designed for AI,” said Ralf VonSosen, Chief Growth Officer at AIBound. “Niall’s experience has driven him to build an AI security platform by security practitioners, for security practitioners — a control plane laser-focused on the opportunities and challenges security teams face every day in securing their organizations’ AI transformation journey.”

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AIBound is the AI Control Plane that gives organizations visibility and control over each AI tool, agent, and model in use — from employee browsers and endpoints to cloud infrastructure, through 100+ integrations. With 78% of employees already using unapproved AI tools, AIBound enables companies to keep pace with AI adoption — and get ahead of it. Security teams gain instant visibility into every AI tool the moment it appears, understand whether it poses a risk, and can block unauthorized tools on the spot, without slowing down the business. 

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Powering every insight is Nucleus AI — AIBound’s proprietary intelligence engine, and one of  the industry's most comprehensive AI application catalogs. Nucleus automatically identifies and assesses the risk of hundreds of thousands of AI applications, turning complex AI activity into clear, actionable decisions for security teams. 

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AIBound is attending RSAC, March 23 - 26, 2026 and will be demonstrating the platform at Early Stage Expo Briefing Center (ESE-43). CEO, Niall Browne, is presenting on how to identify AI risk at the Early Stage Expo on Thursday, March 26 at 11:30 a.m. PT. 

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To schedule a conversation at RSAC, follow the link: https://www.aibound.com/aibound-at-rsac-2026 

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About AIBound:

AIBound is the AI Control Plane for Secure AI, the platform purpose-built to both detect and prevent AI. Founded in 2025 by Niall Browne, five-time Global CISO and former head of security at Palo Alto Networks and Workday. Through more than 100 integrations, AIBound gives organizations complete visibility into every AI app, agent, model, and plugin in. Powered by Nucleus AI, the platform automatically identifies and assesses hundreds of thousands of AI applications, turning AI risk into clear, actionable intelligence. For more information, visit www.aibound.com