VendorLeak Audit
A non-technical audit tool that maps every external destination your AI and ML systems send data to, then flags suspicious routes for a compliance officer or CISO to review.
Chief Compliance Officers and CISOs at hospitals, banks, and insurers using third-party AI tools
- Automated discovery that connects to cloud accounts and enumerates every external S3 bucket, API, and SaaS endpoint touching your AI workloads
- Risk scoring per destination (jurisdiction, data type exfiltrated, account age, contract status) explained in plain English
- Quarterly board-ready report mapping AI data flows against GDPR, HIPAA, and contractual obligations
- Watchlist mode that alerts on new outbound routes appearing in the environment, the same way Alex noticed an unattended 5-month-old extraction pipeline
The Stratagems #17 narrative – an unattended extraction service silently siphoning MedTech training data for 150 days – is the kind of incident regulators and board members are starting to ask CISOs about by name; most non-technical leaders have no way to see it.
Strong, quantified pain: ~89% of enterprise AI usage is invisible to IT, ~20% of orgs had breaches linked to unauthorized AI, ~223 AI-related data policy violations/month, and only <10% of enterprises have proper AI controls — confirms CISO-level anxiety across healthcare/finance.AI Risk in Third-Party Vendor Tools - Accorian ↗How to Audit Your AI Vendors: A Practical Guide to Third-Party Risk ↗
Crowded adjacent space: OneTrust (AI Governance module), Holistic AI, TrustLayer, IBM watsonx Data Lineage, Solidatus, and datalineage.ai all touch AI data-flow/vendor mapping for regulated enterprises — direct 'AI data destination' niche is narrower but overlaps heavily with TPRM and lineage suites.Holistic AI Review 2026: Features & Pricing ↗Pricing and Packaging | OneTrust ↗7 Best AI Data Lineage Tools for Financial Services in 2026 ↗
CISO/compliance budgets are large and sales-led (OneTrust hides pricing, meters by admin users and inventory size); regulation (HIPAA 2026 Security Rule, EU AI Act, state AI laws) is forcing board-level spend; standalone players exist and charge enterprise rates, though many buyers will absorb this as a module of a larger TPRM suite.OneTrust Pricing 2026: Plans, Costs & Hidden Fees ↗TrustLayer Plans ↗
Multiple secular regulatory drivers converging through 2026+ — HIPAA Security Rule update, EU AI Act phased enforcement, ISO 42001 AI management standard, state-level accountability laws (CA, IL, CO, NYC, TX) — sustaining demand for audit tooling for years.HIPAA Security Rule 2026: This Is Going to Expose Some Gaps ↗Understanding ISO 42001 Readiness Gaps in 2026 ↗
Non-trivial: requires network/proxy taps or endpoint agents to see shadow-AI traffic, per-vendor API integrations to enumerate data destinations, plus anomaly detection — not a weekend build, and the 'non-technical CISO-friendly UI' layer adds meaningful polish work.