AI adoption is accelerating inside every organization, faster than security teams can track. Employees aren’t just experimenting with AI tools, they’re also creating autonomous agents and non-human identities that can act independently across systems. Many of these operate without oversight, ownership, or visibility, expanding the attack surface in ways traditional security was never designed to handle. This is why AI discovery, followed by a complete and accurate AI inventory, has become essential for safe and controlled adoption.
This rapid growth creates one unavoidable truth:
Most organizations are running far more AI, agents, and non-human identities than they realize.
And without knowing what’s actually operating inside your environment, you can’t monitor it, secure it, or control its risks. That’s why AI discovery isn’t just helpful, it’s the essential first step toward safe and responsible adoption.
Illuminating the Reality of Your AI Footprint
AI discovery is the process of automatically identifying every AI tool, agent, non-human identity, and integration operating across your environment. It reveals the AI that’s been adopted intentionally, and the much larger volume that has appeared organically through SaaS platforms and employee-driven experimentation.
A comprehensive discovery process should answer critical questions:
- What AI tools are employees actually using?
- Which SaaS apps include embedded AI features?
- Which autonomous agents and non-human identities are active across your systems?
- What integrations, APIs, or OAuth connections link AI systems to sensitive resources?
By illuminating these realities, AI discovery exposes the full scope of your AI footprint—an essential first step, but not enough on its own. To truly assess risk and make informed decisions, organizations need deeper context: who owns each tool or agent, what data it accesses, how it behaves, and which integrations or identities it relies on. Wing provides this enriched insight, transforming raw discovery into actionable understanding so security and IT leaders can accurately evaluate exposure and respond with confidence.
Enrichment Through Wing’s Global Application Catalog
Wing’s global application catalog is a continuously updated, comprehensive database of thousands of AI and SaaS applications, tools, agents, and services. It includes detailed intelligence on each application’s purpose, provider, features, embedded AI capabilities, data handling practices, typical permissions, known risks, and integration behaviors.
When Wing discovers an AI tool or integration in your environment, it matches it against this catalog to instantly enrich the raw discovery with deep context, turning a simple name or connection into a full profile of what the tool does, how it operates, and what risks it may introduce. This catalog-powered enrichment gives security teams the context they need about each tool and agent, enabling faster risk assessment, smarter decision-making, and more effective protection across the entire AI and SaaS landscape.
Your Single Source of Truth
Finding AI is only the beginning. Once discovered, each tool, agent, and integration must be organized into a centralized, authoritative inventory, a single source of truth that captures the details needed to understand and manage risk.
A strong AI inventory should include for each tool, app and agent:
- Name and type
- Owner and department
- Purpose and approved usage
- Data access and permissions
- Associated users, non-human identities or agents
- Integrations and OAuth/API connections
- Risk level and exposure potential
Without a complete inventory, organizations cannot properly evaluate risk, define policies, or determine what AI needs closer attention.
Why an AI Inventory Is Critical for Safe Adoption
Before you can secure AI, before you can monitor behavior, before you can enforce policy, you must first know what AI exists across your environment. Discovery reveals any AI used by your organizations. Then, an AI inventory organizes it and adds context needed to make effective decisions.
A complete AI inventory allows organizations to:
- Identify risky or unknown tools: Shadow AI and unapproved agents can be spotted quickly.
- Reduce identity and permission sprawl: human users, non-human identities and agent permissions are mapped and monitored.
- Establish clear ownership and accountability: Every tool has a responsible team or individual.
- Understand how access paths can expose sensitive data: You can see which tools have access to sensitive assets and resources.
- Support audits, compliance, and reporting: Regulators are increasingly expecting AI inventories, especially under the EU AI Act.
- Enable safe innovation: Teams can adopt new technologies and innovate confidently knowing that tools are tracked, monitored, and understood.
How Wing Helps
Wing Security automates the discovery, management and monitoring of the AI adoption lifecycle:
- Automatic discovery of all AI tools, agents, and embedded features
- Mapping of API/OAuth connections and non-human identities
- Enriched AI inventory with purpose, usage, permissions, and risk context
- Continuous observability to track behavior and detect anomalies
Wing’s Inventory turns raw discovery into structured understanding
Wing gives organizations the visibility and insight required to adopt AI safely, without slowing innovation.
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