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# Cloud AI Governance

You can use Cloud AI governance to discover AI services and agents in your cloud environment and identify security risks associated with their use.

OX provides visibility into AI activity across your cloud environment, helping you identify which AI services are running, how they interact with cloud resources and data, and activity that might require investigation.

Cloud AI governance findings are generated according to the AI policies configured for your organization.

### What OX identifies

| Risk                  | Description                                                                                                                                   |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Shadow AI services    | Identifies AI services or agents that are not approved according to your organization's AI policy.                                            |
| Abnormal AI usage     | Identifies unusual changes in AI service usage that can indicate compromised or unauthorized activity and result in unexpected service costs. |
| AI privileges         | Identifies AI services or agents with permissions that can introduce security risks in your cloud environment.                                |
| Sensitive data access | Identifies AI services or agents that can access sensitive data or data stores.                                                               |
| Data leakage          | Identifies conditions in which AI services or agents can expose sensitive data outside the intended environment.                              |
| Encrypted DNS bypass  | Identifies AI-related communication that bypasses expected controls by using encrypted DNS.                                                   |

### Configure Cloud AI governance policies

Cloud AI governance detections are controlled by policies. [You can enable and configure these policies according to your organization's AI security requirements.](/ox-policies/cloud-ai-governance-policies.md)

For example, you can configure the Shadow AI policy to define which AI services are approved for use in your organization.


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