Introducing Zip's AI Visibility Tool

Zip Security has launched AI Visibility, a new module, free for every existing customer, that gives business and security leaders one view of every AI tool reaching their organization: every login, OAuth grant, browser extension, and app on a managed device, and what company data each one can touch. It was announced alongside the AI Visibility Summit on August 5, 2026.

Your team is moving faster than ever, and AI is a big reason why. People are wiring it into everything: drafting in seconds, automating the tedious parts of the job, shipping things that used to take a team weeks. But most security teams can't see where any of it is happening, and that blind spot is exactly what AI visibility closes.

What is AI visibility?

For security and business leaders, AI visibility is the ability to see every AI tool reaching your organization in one place: what employees have logged into (via OAuth), what's installed as a browser extension, and what's running as a desktop app. It goes beyond a list of tools. Real AI visibility shows you who is using each tool and what company data it can reach, and lets you flip the view to see every AI tool a single employee touches.

This is a different question from the marketing sense of the term, where "AI visibility" describes how often a brand shows up in AI-generated answers. Here, it's about governing the AI your workforce actually uses and the company data it can reach, not your brand's presence in AI search.

Without it, AI usage lives in the gaps between your existing admin consoles, and "shadow AI" (any AI tool adopted without security's knowledge) spreads unchecked.

Why does AI visibility matter now?

AI adoption and AI governance are pulling in opposite directions. Generative AI reached 53% adoption within three years, faster than the PC or the internet, and 88% of organizations now use AI (Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Report), yet governance reviews and a demanding regulatory environment slow sanctioned adoption to a crawl. Organizations are ready to invest in resolving that tension: Gartner projects worldwide information security spending will reach $244.2 billion in 2026, up 13.3%, with the expanding use of AI and generative AI cited as a key growth driver.

Three forces sit behind that tension, and together they explain why AI visibility has become table stakes:

• AI adoption is already happening. Employees are wiring AI into everything, drafting in seconds and automating the tedious parts of the job, faster than IT and security can track. The usage is real whether or not anyone has formally approved it.
• Governance can't keep up blind. The leaders accountable for security are asked to sign off on tools they can't see, and a single OAuth grant can quietly hand an AI vendor access to a whole Drive. Faced with that, teams either rubber-stamp everything or slow it to a crawl, and people route around both as shadow AI.
• Visibility is what breaks the tradeoff. With a real baseline of every AI tool in use, and exactly what company data each one can reach, teams can say yes to AI fast and stay in control, instead of choosing between speed and safety.

The takeaway isn't to lock AI down on day one, it's to see it first and govern from a real baseline.

"Most organizations shouldn't try to dictate AI policy on day one, before they understand where it's actually helping the business," says Josh Zweig, Co-Founder and CEO of Zip Security. "You let some of that organic usage happen, get a real baseline of what's being used and where it's driving value, then build automation and secure defaults around it. Do those two things well and you've got a good path to secure, well-governed AI adoption."

What does Zip's AI Visibility module do?

Zip's new AI Visibility module gives you one dashboard for every AI tool reaching your organization, across three channels: OAuth grants, browser extensions, and desktop apps. It's all pulled from connections Zip already has in place.

Click into any tool and see exactly who's using it and what company data it can reach, including the plain-language scopes each OAuth grant was given (for example, "Read all Drive files"). Click into any employee and see every AI tool they touch. What used to take days of digging across four different consoles is now one click, whether you're scoping a vendor agreement, cleaning up shadow IT, offboarding someone, or answering a compliance question.

Which AI tools does it detect?

Zip matches signals it already collects, across best-in-class identity, device management, and endpoint protection, against a curated, regularly updated catalog of AI vendors. It surfaces three detection channels:

• OAuth grants (via your identity provider): the AI vendors employees have authorized to reach corporate data, and the scopes each was given.
• Browser extensions (via browser management): AI extensions installed across your managed devices.
• Desktop apps (via endpoint protection): AI clients running on your managed devices.

Because it's catalog-driven, the dashboard is transparent about its scope: it shows the AI tools Zip's catalog knows about, and the catalog is updated as new vendors appear.

How is Zip's AI Visibility deployed?

There's nothing new to stand up, and that's the whole point. Because Zip already runs best-in-class identity, device management, browser management, and endpoint protection across your company, the signals that reveal AI usage were already flowing through the platform. So when tech companies that already trust Zip as their security platform asked us to show them their AI footprint, we didn't have to build a new pipeline or ship another agent, we just turned it on:

• It's already in your account. If you're a Zip customer, open your Zip Console, go to AI Visibility, and start gaining insights today. No rollout, no project plan, no waiting on IT.
• Nothing to deploy or manage. No new agents, no proxies, no browser extensions to push, and no new admin console to learn.
• Coverage the moment you open it. Because the signals already flow through Zip, your AI footprint is populated instantly, not weeks from now.

And if a channel isn't connected yet (say, browser management), the dashboard shows it as "not connected" with a one-click path to turn it on, rather than silently reporting zero.

The benefits of AI visibility

With AI visibility in place, you can:

• Turn AI approvals from a guessing game into a quick, informed decision grounded in real usage data
• See the blast radius of every OAuth grant, exactly what data each AI tool can reach
• Answer offboarding, incident, and compliance questions about AI in one place
• Consolidate procurement and scope vendor agreements against who's actually using what
• Show leadership exactly what's already in use before they're asked to approve more

What AI Visibility doesn't do yet

We're deliberate about this: today, AI Visibility is about seeing AI usage, not blocking it. It shows you what's in use and what data those tools can reach so you can act in your existing admin consoles; in-product enforcement (like bulk OAuth revocation and extension blocking) is on the roadmap.

It also detects AI through OAuth grants, browser extensions, and desktop apps, not through plain website visits. If someone only navigates to an AI tool in a browser tab without authorizing OAuth, installing an extension, or running a desktop app, that isn't captured today. Closing that browser-visit gap is something we're actively evaluating.

Frequently asked questions

What is AI visibility?

For security and business leaders, AI visibility is the ability to see every AI tool reaching your organization in one place, what employees log into via OAuth, install as browser extensions, and run as desktop apps, along with who is using each tool and what company data it can reach. It's a different question from the marketing sense of the term, which measures how often a brand appears in AI-generated answers.

Why does AI visibility matter?

The teams accountable for AI governance want to enable it, not block it: engineers need OAuth access to build fast, and security wants to say yes with trusted tools. Every company is weighing moving fast on AI against staying in control of it, and visibility is what lets them do both, approving AI from a real baseline of what's actually in use instead of guessing.

What does Zip's AI Visibility module do?

It gives you one dashboard for every AI tool reaching your organization across three channels: OAuth grants, browser extensions, and desktop apps. Click into any tool to see who uses it and what data it can reach, or into any employee to see every AI tool they touch.

Which AI tools can Zip detect?

Zip detects AI tools through OAuth grants (via your identity provider), browser extensions (via browser management), and desktop apps (via endpoint protection), matched against a curated, regularly updated catalog of AI vendors.

Does AI Visibility require a new agent or browser extension?

No. AI Visibility is built from data Zip already collects across best-in-class identity, browser, and endpoint protection, so there's nothing new to deploy or manage.

Can I block or revoke AI tools from the dashboard?

Not yet. AI Visibility is focused on visibility first: it shows you what's in use so you can act in your existing admin consoles. Enforcement, like bulk OAuth revocation and extension blocking, is on the roadmap.

What about employees pasting data into an AI tool in a browser tab?

Detecting a plain website visit with no OAuth grant, extension, or desktop app is a known limitation today. AI Visibility surfaces AI reaching your org through those three channels; closing the browser-visit gap is something we're actively evaluating.

Does it work for both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365?

Yes. OAuth detection works for both, and the dashboard groups usage by vendor, so if both are connected you get a single unified view.

How fresh is the data?

The dashboard refreshes regularly and shows a last-refreshed timestamp.

How is this different from a dedicated AI security platform or SaaS-discovery tool?

In-line AI security platforms sit in the prompt path to inspect and block traffic, and SaaS-discovery tools enumerate every SaaS app. AI Visibility is purpose-built for AI and lightweight: it uses telemetry Zip already has to show what AI is in use and what data it can reach, and it's complementary to those tools rather than a replacement.

To learn more about how AI visibility helps protect your business, book a demo today.