StackAware and Nudge Security
Making shadow AI visible and governable.
Organizations can’t govern AI systems they can’t see.
That’s why StackAware is teaming up with Nudge Security to help customers:
Identify shadow AI
Detect emerging AI-related SaaS risks
Connect technical discovery with practical AI governance.
Shadow AI is now an operating reality
AI adoption is not waiting for formal procurement, security review, or governance approval.
Employees create new AI and SaaS accounts.
Users grant OAuth access.
Teams test AI assistants.
And sensitive business information can undergo AI processing before a company has decided whether a tool, vendor, or use case is acceptable.
This creates a basic governance problem: firms need to manage AI risk without a reliable view of where AI is actually in use.
Policy enforcement, regulatory compliance, and ISO/IEC 42001 management systems all demand an accurate inventory of systems and use cases. When AI tools enter the environment informally, this inventory becomes incomplete. When the inventory is incomplete, risk decisions become reactive.
How Nudge Security helps
Nudge Security helps companies discover and manage SaaS and AI across the business.
Nudge can identify signals that indicate new software adoption, such as account creation activity and OAuth grants. The platform can also support AI-specific visibility, including detection of:
AI agents
MCP servers
Sensitive data flows
This matters because many AI governance failures do not start with a formal deployment. They start with an employee testing a tool, connecting an account, granting permissions, or using an AI service before security, privacy, legal, or compliance teams are aware.
Nudge helps surface those events so companies can take action earlier.
Where StackAware enters
StackAware helps build practical AI governance, risk, and compliance programs, with a particular focus on ISO/IEC 42001 readiness.
Discovery is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Once a tool or use case is identified, companies still need to decide:
What business process does it support?
What risks does the use case create?
What data is being processed?
Which controls are required?
Who owns the system?
StackAware answers those questions and turns AI visibility into a repeatable governance action.
Taking AI risk management to the next level
The combined value is simple:
Nudge helps firms find shadow AI and SaaS activity.
StackAware helps them decide what to do about it.
For customers preparing for ISO/IEC 42001 or building an AI risk management program, this closes an important gap.
A governance program cannot rely only on policies and questionnaires. It also needs operational signals showing where AI is being adopted in practice.
Nudge Security and StackAware working together deliver both.
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