Netskope introduces AI Command Center to monitor and secure enterprise AI sprawl

Netskope this week launched AI Command Center, a new offering in its Netskope One secure access service edge (SASE) platform that gives enterprises a centralized way to discover, assess, and respond to risks associated with AI applications, models, and autonomous agents. AI Command Center provides visibility into both approved and unsanctioned AI services across an organization, helping security teams identify where AI is used, understand the risks, and automate remediation, according to Netskope. The platform correlates AI-related activity with end users, applications, data, and security policies to provide what Netskope describes as a comprehensive view of enterprise AI usage. “Organizations have adopted AI faster than any security team can manually track, triage, or contain, and the tools nobody approved are almost always the ones carrying the highest risk,” said Sanjay Beri, co-founder and CEO of Netskope, in a statement . “We’re delivering a fundamental shift from security teams that react to AI risk, to security operations that anticipate and eliminate it.” The visibility provided by AI Command Center is enabled by NewEdge, Netskope’s privately built global network that carries customer traffic through more than 120 data centers worldwide before it reaches cloud and AI services. NewEdge serves as the foundation of the company’s Netskope One secure access service edge (SASE) platform. When organizations deploy Netskope, software on end-user devices routes web, SaaS, private application, and AI traffic through the Netskope cloud, allowing the company to inspect activity and enforce security and governance policies. “Enterprise AI adoption has skyrocketed. Data volume and sprawl have created a pervasive visibility gap for security teams. For many organizations, effectively correlating risk across managed and shadow AI assets, user identities, and data stores is difficult,” said Jennifer Glenn, research director for data and information security at IDC, said in a statement . “Addressing this challenge requires moving beyond siloed tools to a unified intelligence layer. Platforms that combine comprehensive AI discovery with real-time risk correlation are essential for enabling security operations to anticipate, prioritize, and autonomously eliminate AI-fueled threats at the speed the landscape demands.” In a blog post accompanying the announcement , Netskope said enterprises are struggling to keep pace with the rapid growth of AI technologies and the risks they introduce. “Security teams know AI is everywhere,” wrote Rich Beckett, senior product marketing manager at Netskope. “What they don’t know is exactly where, what is managed, unmanaged, or personal, what data it touches, who has access, and whether any of it is creating risk.” Beckett also noted in the blog that organizations need visibility not only into AI applications but also the models, agents, and data interactions that power them. Pulling from Netskope’s AI Risk and Readiness Report , “3% of organizations have deployed AI tools. Only 7% govern them with real-time policy enforcement. 94% are making AI security decisions with an incomplete picture of their environment, and 88% cannot reliably tell whether an employee is using an authorized corporate AI account or a personal one on the same platform,” Beckett explained. Netskope said AI Command Center is intended to help organizations move beyond simple AI application discovery to gain a more complete understanding of how AI technologies are being used across their environments and what risks those technologies may introduce. Netskope One AI Command Center is generally available today.