Shadow-AI

Shadow-AI protects sensitive data from unauthorized AI use, enabling organizations to safely leverage AI agents without exposing confidential information.

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Inspiration

As organizations increasingly use AI tools and AI agents, employees may unintentionally share confidential information such as credentials, personal data, source code, or business documents. Shadow-AI was created to address this problem by helping organizations detect and prevent sensitive data exposure during AI usage.

What it does

Shadow-AI is an AI security platform that detects unauthorized AI usage and sensitive information leaks. It analyzes prompts and documents, identifies privacy risks, and provides security insights through a centralized dashboard. The platform also includes a browser extension for real-time protection.

How we built it

We built Shadow-AI using AI/ML and web technologies to create an end-to-end security workflow. The system analyzes prompts and uploaded documents, detects sensitive information, evaluates privacy risks, and displays the results through an interactive web interface and monitoring dashboard. We also developed a browser-based security layer for real-time detection.

Challenges we ran into

One of the main challenges was accurately identifying sensitive information while minimizing false positives. We also had to design the detection pipeline to work across different types of prompts and documents while keeping the system practical for real-time usage.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of building a complete AI security workflow that combines sensitive-data detection, prompt analysis, PDF scanning, browser protection, and centralized monitoring into one platform. We also successfully developed a functional product with multiple integrated components.

What we learned

Through Shadow-AI, we gained practical experience in AI/ML integration, prompt analysis, data privacy, full-stack development, API integration, and building security-focused AI applications. We also learned how to collaborate effectively as a team while developing a complete product.

What's next for Shadow-AI

We plan to improve detection accuracy, expand support for different AI platforms and data types, strengthen real-time monitoring, and introduce more advanced AI-powered privacy and security capabilities.

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