The self-check
Where your AI defense stands today
Twelve questions in business language, organized into the three layers. No technical jargon, no sensitive data: nothing your company uses is collected here. At the end, your AI Defense Stack, layer by layer.
Before we start, three quick answers to calibrate the reading to your context.
Governance
The rules and the proof that you are in control.
Visibility
Seeing the real AI use in your team.
Protection
The technical block at the exact point of risk.
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Why this matters now
The risk is not the AI. It is the data that leaves with it.
AI came in through the back door, one employee at a time. No one means harm: they paste the proposal to summarize, the contract to review. And the most valuable data leaves through the screen, with no record.
The detail almost no one knows
The data goes to the maker
What the team types is sent to the company that makes the AI, stored on its servers, and can train its product, for up to five years.
The data stays protected
The same use does not train the maker's model, and the data is kept for only thirty days.
Most companies are in the first situation without knowing it. (Anthropic's official documentation for Claude; the other makers follow a similar structure, with details that vary by platform and plan.)
The other side of the risk
And when the attack is against the AI itself?
It is not only data leaving. The AI your team uses becomes a target too. Three real attacks, in plain language:
Prompt injection
Hidden text, in a document, email or website, tricks the AI into acting against you: leaking data or running an order no one gave.
The AI hands over the data
An AI connected to your systems can reveal, by accident, sensitive information it has access to, to someone who should not see it.
The assistant that acts on its own
Assistants that run tasks and code with the employee's access can be manipulated to do damage with that same access.
Attack types cataloged by the OWASP Top 10 for AI Applications (2025).
The full map
Defending AI use has three layers. Most providers deliver only one.
Selling only policy leaves the leak open. Selling only blocking proves control to no one. The three mirror the NIST AI RMF cycle, the official AI risk standard: govern, see the use, and manage the threat.
Governance
Sets and proves the AI rules: a usage policy, what may never go into an AI, who approves a tool and the auditable evidence, under the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 standards. It answers: are we in control?
Visibility
Uncovers reality: which AIs the team actually uses (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini), on company or personal accounts, and what no one approved. Without seeing it, you cannot protect it. It answers: what is happening now?
Protection
Acts at the moment of risk: it keeps sensitive data from leaving, controls which AIs are allowed, defends the company's AI against manipulation and supervises the assistants that take actions. It answers: are we protected now?
Before you think: I already have web filtering
Web protection is the right foundation. It just was not built for this.
If your company already blocks dangerous sites, you did the right thing, and that foundation still holds. The point is different: an AI is not a dangerous site to block.
That is why AI defense does not replace your web protection: it adds a new layer, designed for the exact place where data leaves. Together, they close the gap.
Where Zamak comes in
See, govern and protect AI use. As a program, not as a scare.
Zamak delivers the three layers in a single managed program, and starts with the diagnosis, low commitment, so you see your own reality before deciding the rest.
1. Diagnosis
We install a lightweight agent, discover the real AI use and deliver the exposure map. It is the low-commitment entry point, and it already shows the size of the problem with your own data.
2. Managed governance
We turn the diagnosis into a living program: policy, classification, an approved catalog and evidence ready for audit, board and insurer. Recurring, reviewed every quarter.
3. Technical defense
Defined after the diagnosis, it acts at the point of risk: it keeps data from leaving, controls the allowed tools and protects corporate AIs. The protection that policy alone cannot provide.
- Assisted diagnosis: the real map of which AIs each area uses, by name, and the governance assessment under the NIST AI standard, with the report of what to prioritize.
- Managed governance: an AI usage policy, data classification, a catalog of approved tools and auditable evidence under NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, with continuous review.
- Technical defense: blocking data from leaking to an AI, controlling which tools are allowed, reinforcing identity and protecting corporate AIs against manipulation.
- Migration to managed accounts: moving the team off the personal accounts that train the model and onto a corporate environment that does not train and retains less.
The result: your company reaps the productivity gain of AI without the leak, the fine and the attack that come when no one is in control.
If nothing changes
The data that leaves today does not come back tomorrow.
Postponing AI defense does not freeze the risk, it grows with every week of ungoverned use. The contract lost over a broken data clause, the fine that arrives after the leak, the client who walks away on learning their data ended up in a public AI: none of it warns you first.
And there is the question the board asks afterward, never before: were we in control? Those who have the program answer with evidence. Those who do not answer with silence.
Zamak has operated protection technology for fifteen years, is a Microsoft Solutions Partner and is a member of the Addee Elite Group. We operate with tools certified under SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA and PCI DSS, and we act as the backbone behind your team, not as a replacement for it.
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