Acium Use Cases

Every Way Acium Helps You Adopt AI Safely

AI adoption is moving faster than most teams can govern it. Acium makes it visible, protected, and governed — discovering how AI is really being used, controlling which browsers and agents can act, and stopping sensitive data from leaving, without a dedicated security team and without blocking the tools people rely on.

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Use Cases

Seven Ways to Adopt AI With Visibility and Control

01 / 07

Discover Shadow AI

Employees are already using AI tools you don't know about. Acium finds them first.

Key Benefits:

  • See every AI tool in use across the organization — sanctioned and shadow, web and browser-based
  • Tell corporate accounts from personal accounts, tool by tool, user by user
  • Spot the highest-risk shadow tools by usage volume, not just presence
  • Turn unmanaged AI use into a governed inventory, without blocking anyone's workflow
Shadow AI DiscoveryRanked by usage volume
Last 30 days
Shadow tools found0across 252 users
Personal accounts0%of AI activity
Perplexity124 users
Shadow
Grok87 users
Shadow
DeepSeek41 users
High risk
Sanctioned · corporate accountsChatGPT Enterprise · 612 users • Claude for Work · 445 users
Illustrative sample data
02 / 07

Control AI Browser Access

Not every browser should reach every task. Acium's Browser Routing decides which browser gets used, before an AI browser becomes an entry point.

Key Benefits:

  • Route specific tasks, sites, and SaaS apps to the browser that's approved for them
  • Block native AI browsers outright where the risk isn't worth it, or restrict them to sanctioned use
  • Apply policy by user, group, or the sensitivity of what's being accessed
  • Enforce it without asking anyone to change how they work day to day
Browser RoutingTask-level routing policy
Default fleet
Routing rules0
Sessions routed (30d)0
Admin toolsEdgeRouted
Sensitive SaaSManaged ChromeRouted
AI browsersFinance
Blocked
AI browsersEngineering
Sanctioned use only

Policy applies before the page loads — by user, group, or the sensitivity of the destination.

Illustrative sample data
03 / 07

Reduce AI Data Exposure

People will paste sensitive data into AI tools. Acium makes sure it doesn't leave with them.

Key Benefits:

  • Mask sensitive data — PII, credentials, source code — before it reaches an AI tool's input
  • Apply data-loss prevention templates built for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot specifically
  • Set rules by data category, user, or tool, not one blanket policy for everyone
  • Give people the AI tools they want, minus the data they shouldn't share
Prompt DLPMasking at the point of use
Live
Fields masked (30d)0
DLP templates0ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Copilot
Typed prompt· claude.ai2 FIELDS MASKED

Summarize this incident for the postmortem — the leaked access key••••was rotated, and the affected customer record••••has been flagged for review.

Delivered to Claude · 0 sensitive fieldsMask & allow
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04 / 07

Govern Agent Activity

AI agents now act inside your business systems. Acium tells you when it's a person or an agent, and enforces policy either way.

Key Benefits:

  • Use the Information Coherence Framework, ICF, to validate whether an action is human-led, AI-assisted, or fully agentic
  • Apply the same allow, block, or quarantine rules to agents that you already apply to people
  • Catch stolen-credential misuse and AI-generated mimicry that pattern-matching alone misses
  • Extend one policy model across browser activity and the agents running inside it
Agent ActivityHuman, assisted, or agentic
ICF
Headless browser sessionUnrecognized automation · svc-finance credentials
High
Quarantined
Sanctioned coding agentCursor · engineering workspace
Allowed
On allow-list
Information Coherence Framework· why the session was caught
PurposePermissionsBehaviorTiming

Signals don’t cohere as a human-led action — the session is treated as an agent and the same quarantine policy applies.

Illustrative sample data
05 / 07

Prove Compliance and Audit Readiness

When the audit or the incident comes, you need evidence, not a guess. Acium keeps the record for you.

Key Benefits:

  • Capture a searchable log of AI usage, policy actions, and blocked data across the organization
  • Produce audit-ready reports for compliance reviews, client security questionnaires, and board reporting
  • Show what changed, what was blocked, and what risk went down over time
  • Support the frameworks your industry already requires, without a separate reporting project
Audit StreamSearchable record of AI activity
Last 30 days
Flagged prompts0
Redactions0
Policy triggers0
m.alvarez · ChatGPTPrompt flagged09:41
j.chen · ClaudeSSN redacted09:37
svc-render · GeminiUpload blocked09:22
r.patel · CopilotPolicy trigger08:56
Audit-ready exportsCompliance reviewSecurity questionnaireBoard report
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06 / 07

Manage Browser Extension Risk

The extension someone installed last year is still running today. Acium tells you what it can actually do.

Key Benefits:

  • Inventory every extension across the fleet, with install counts and permission scope
  • Flag high-risk scopes — reading every site, clipboard access, form-filling — before they're exploited
  • Separate sanctioned extensions from shadow installs, AI-related or not
  • Manage permissions and retire risky extensions from one console
Extension RiskRanked by permission scope
Fleet-wide
Extensions in fleet0
High-risk scopes0flagged for review
AI Sidebar Assistant· 74 installsSHADOW
Reads every site · Clipboard accessHigh
Coupon Finder Pro41 installs
Reads every site · Form-filling
Shadow
Grammarly312 installs
Text input
Sanctioned
1Password428 installs
Form-filling
Sanctioned
Illustrative sample data
07 / 07

Support Managed and Unmanaged Environments

Contractors, BYOD, and unmanaged devices don't get a pass just because they're outside your fleet.

Key Benefits:

  • Extend policy to devices you don't own or fully control, not just the ones enrolled in MDM
  • Deploy through a lightweight browser extension in minutes, no infrastructure changes required
  • Add the Sensor where you need deeper device posture and system-level control
  • Keep coverage consistent whether someone's on a company laptop or their own
CoverageOne policy, every device
All environments
Managed0Company fleetPolicy:Consistent
BYOD0Personal devicesPolicy:Consistent
Contractor0Outside the fleetPolicy:Consistent

Extension deploys in minutes — the Sensor adds device posture where you need it.

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SUCCESS STORIES

How Organizations Succeed with Acium

Global Financial Services

"We rolled Acium out to our remote workforce in days. For the first time we can see which AI tools employees are using and where sensitive data might be exposed, so we can approve the right tools instead of blocking everything."

FinanceSafe AI Adoption

Healthcare Provider Network

"Acium gave us a clear inventory of browser extensions and the ability to review permissions and manage profiles from one console. Extension governance is far simpler now, and it supports our compliance posture."

HealthcareExtension Governance

Technology Enterprise

"With the extension and sensor working together, we finally have visibility into employee AI use and SaaS activity across both managed and unmanaged devices. Our team spends less time chasing unknowns and more time enabling AI safely."

TechnologyVisibility and Control

Managing this across every client?

If you’re an MSP, you’re not doing this once — you’re doing it for every client, every day. Acium’s MSP dashboard gives you one view across your entire book, with policies you can push to a single client or all of them at once.

AI Governance Use Cases: Common Questions

Shadow AI is employees using unsanctioned AI tools for work — most often personal chatbot accounts. MIT's Project NANDA study (2025) found that while only 40% of companies had purchased an official LLM subscription, workers at more than 90% of companies surveyed used personal AI tools for work tasks, and IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found high levels of shadow AI added an extra $670,000 to the average breach cost. Acium discovers every AI tool, account, and user across your organization, so risky usage can be brought into policy instead of guessed at.
Gartner recommended in December 2025 that enterprises block agentic AI browsers for now, because indirect prompt injection remains an unsolved security problem — OpenAI's own release notes warn against using Atlas with regulated or production data. Blanket blocking sacrifices real productivity, though. Acium's Browser Routing offers a middle path: block AI browsers outright, restrict them to low-risk use cases, or automatically route sensitive work to an approved browser instead.
By making agent activity as visible and controllable as human activity. In the 2026 CISO AI Risk Report, 71% of security leaders said AI tools already access core systems like Salesforce and SAP, yet only 16% govern that access effectively and 92% lack full visibility into AI identities. Acium's Information Coherence Framework (ICF) determines whether activity is human-led, AI-assisted, or agentic, and applies the same allow, block, and quarantine policies to agents that apply to people.
About $670,000 on average. IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found breaches involving high levels of shadow AI averaged $4.63 million versus $3.96 million for standard incidents, and exposed customer PII more often (65% vs. 53%). Among organizations with AI-related breaches, 97% lacked proper AI access controls. Acium closes that gap by masking sensitive data before it reaches AI tools and keeping a searchable, audit-ready log of AI usage and policy enforcement.
With AI governance delivered as a low-friction service, not an enterprise tooling project. Only 51% of businesses have implemented any AI security policy (ConnectWise, 2025) and close to zero percent have a dedicated security officer, yet Gartner found organizations that run regular AI assessments are 3x more likely to achieve high value from generative AI. Acium deploys through a browser extension in minutes across managed and unmanaged devices, and MSPs — which 94% of businesses already use — can govern every client from one multi-tenant console.

Make AI Adoption Visible, Protected, and Governed

Discover what AI is being used, control which browsers and agents can act, stop sensitive data from leaving, and prove it’s working — all from one console.

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