How enterprises can govern employee use of AI tools and SaaS apps

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Your next AI governance problem may already be open in someone’s browser. Maybe your colleague pasted a portion of a client brief into ChatGPT or Claude to quickly generate a proposal. Maybe someone on your team signed up for a SaaS app on a personal card because procurement was taking forever. Or maybe they clicked “Allow” when a new app asked to read their work email and files. Any one of these…

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