CISO playbook
Shadow AI bypasses the controls you already own Employees pasting data into external generative models route around DLP, egress filtering and logging. The exposure is real regardless of which regulator you answer to; what changes per jurisdiction is the paperwork.
Spectorn is built to give security leadership deterministic, inspectable evidence about AI traffic instead of probabilistic assurances.
Goal: bring Shadow AI back under control
Uncontrolled use of external generative models (OpenAI, Anthropic, and others) leaks PII and proprietary intellectual property. Traditional firewalls and DLP tools cannot inspect encrypted API traffic or judge the semantic context of a prompt.
Spectorn changes where the control point sits:
- One hub — API requests to external or internal models pass through the Spectorn gateway.
- Context-aware DLP — the gateway analyses the intent in the payload and applies policy before the request leaves for the provider. An attempt to upload proprietary source code to a public model is stopped inside the perimeter.
- Hash-chained audit — every transaction is hashed into an append-only chain, so a later edit is detectable.
The audit trail
Spectorn produces cryptographic evidence for each AI transaction, which is designed to support your audit. It does not, by itself, make your organisation compliant with any specific standard or regulation, and Spectorn makes no such certification claim on your behalf.
Each validation event appends an audit object:
{
"timestamp": "2026-03-24T12:00:00Z",
"actor": "employee-id-9982",
"verdict": "DENY",
"rule_violation": "DLP_SOURCE_CODE",
"entropy_score": 0.89,
"transaction_hash": "e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855"
}
The chain can be exported to any SIEM/SOC system over local syslog or the built-in GoMCP streaming interface.
Evidence packs
Instead of collecting cross-department metrics by hand for an external auditor, a security lead can generate a sealed pack:
- Scope — pick the period, the cluster and the policy sets.
- Generate — aggregate metrics and the associated anomaly graphs.
- Seal — sign the artefact so that a later edit of the file is detectable.
The pack is evidence about what the gateway observed and enforced. Interpreting it against a particular framework remains the auditor's and your organisation's work.
Deployment control and vendor lock-in
Spectorn can be deployed inside your own perimeter rather than consumed as a multi-tenant service, so the security intelligence stays under your control:
- you control the rules;
- you own the logs;
- you choose the hardware.
Fully disconnected (air-gapped) operation depends on which engines and update feeds you enable — signature and detector updates need a delivery path, and that path has to be designed deliberately rather than assumed.
For deployment details see the sovereign perimeter guide.