Monitor Employee AI Tool Usage
Understand how your employees are using generative AI tools at work, verify that usage aligns with your company policy, and identify situations where proprietary information may be at risk — using your existing firewall infrastructure.
AI tools are in your workplace whether you have a policy or not
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity have become part of everyday work for many employees. Some organizations have embraced this and built policies around it. Many have not. Either way, employees are using these tools right now on company networks and company devices.
The risks are real and well documented. Employees sharing proprietary business data, customer information, or internal strategy with an external AI platform. Employees spending significant work time on personal AI projects unrelated to their role. AI tool usage that contradicts a written acceptable use policy the organization cannot actually enforce because it has no visibility into what is happening.
Most organizations have no clear picture of which AI tools employees are using, how frequently, for how long, or what that usage looks like over time. Without that baseline, writing a policy is straightforward. Enforcing one is not.
You cannot enforce an AI acceptable use policy you cannot measure. And you cannot measure AI tool usage without a monitoring solution that specifically tracks it. General web monitoring tools treat ChatGPT the same as any other website. Cyfin's AI category reporting gives you visibility specifically into generative AI access across your organization.
What every Cyfin customer can see
Regardless of which firewall you use, Cyfin provides core AI usage visibility that gives HR, management, and IT a clear picture of how AI tools are being accessed across the organization.
Cyfin's AI category tracks all major generative AI platforms and identifies them by name in reports, not as anonymous technical domains.
See how much time individual employees spend on AI tools each day, which tools they favor, and how usage patterns change over time.
Generate reports that show AI tool usage against your acceptable use policy, making it straightforward to identify employees whose behavior falls outside defined guidelines.
View AI usage by individual user, department, or the full organization. Identify which teams are heavy AI users and which are not engaging with tools at all.
Track how AI tool adoption has grown across your organization over weeks and months. Useful for both policy enforcement and understanding how your workforce is evolving.
Cyfin's noise filtering ensures AI usage reports reflect deliberate employee activity, not automated background connections that happen to touch AI platforms.
Advanced AI monitoring with supported firewalls
Organizations running firewalls that provide expanded AI-specific log data — such as Palo Alto Networks with its AI visibility add-on — and who have SSL inspection enabled unlock a deeper level of reporting that goes beyond session tracking.
When your firewall captures AI session detail at the application layer, Cyfin can surface what employees are submitting to AI tools, providing direct evidence of whether proprietary information is being shared.
Move from suspecting that sensitive data may have been shared with an AI platform to having a specific, reviewable record of what was submitted and when.
This capability depends on your firewall vendor's support for AI-specific log fields and requires SSL inspection to be active in your environment. Not all firewall platforms currently offer this level of AI session detail. Contact us to discuss what is possible with your specific infrastructure.
What an AI usage report looks like
A Cyfin AI session report showing individual employee access to generative AI tools, including session duration and frequency. Reports are human-readable and ready to share with HR or management.
Who uses this
You need to know whether employees are following your AI acceptable use policy and whether anyone is using AI tools in ways that put the organization at risk. Cyfin gives you that visibility in a report you can read and act on independently.
You need a clear picture of which AI platforms are being accessed on the company network and whether any usage patterns suggest data security concerns. Cyfin extends your existing firewall investment to provide that visibility without additional agents or infrastructure.
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