Shadow IT Discovery for CISOs
As a CISO, you are accountable for access you often cannot see, let alone revoke. Tools bought on a department card that never touched the identity provider, free trials that quietly converted to paid plans, and renewal charges nobody recognizes.
Shadow IT Discovery for CISOs lands on your desk because, as a CISO, you are accountable for access you often cannot see, let alone revoke. Tools bought on a department card that never touched the identity provider, free trials that quietly converted to paid plans, and renewal charges nobody recognizes - all of it accumulating in the gaps between HR records, identity provider groups, and vendor billing.
The cost of inaction is never one big number - it is a thousand small ones. Every unmanaged tool is both a budget line and an access path nobody is monitoring, and the window has been open for months before anyone notices. By the time a renewal negotiation or an audit forces the issue, the spend has been leaking for quarters.
ShadowSeat AI treats the problem as data, not process. It cross-references your identity provider with expense feeds and SSO logs to surface every application - managed or not - with who owns it, what it costs, and who actually logs in. The result for a CISO: you get one continuously updated inventory of your entire software footprint instead of a spreadsheet from last fiscal year - with no new headcount, no new policy documents, and no quarterly project plan.
Frequently asked questions
Why does shadow it discovery matter for a CISO specifically?
Because access you cannot enumerate is access you cannot defend. ShadowSeat AI cross-references your identity provider with expense feeds and SSO logs to surface every application - managed or not - with who owns it, what it costs, and who actually logs in, so the problem is surfaced as data instead of a quarterly scramble.
How does ShadowSeat AI fit with our existing ITAM and procurement processes?
Those processes govern what gets bought; ShadowSeat AI governs what stays alive after people leave. It connects your HR system of record and identity provider with read-only OAuth 2.0 - for example, surfacing a departed employee's live Okta seat the same day.
How quickly can we see results?
Most teams get their first full picture within a day of connecting their HR engine and SSO. From there, the first scan alone usually surfaces tools nobody knew were still being paid for.
Is this another platform my team has to babysit?
No. Once connected, ShadowSeat AI runs its detection sweeps and deprovisioning loops on its own and escalates only what needs a human decision. The point is fewer manual access reviews, not more.
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