BlackFog, an anti-data exfiltration (ADX) provider, has announced the general availability of ADX Vision for macOS, extending its shadow AI detection, governance, and prevention platform to Apple endpoints.
With the release, BlackFog said enterprises can apply a single, consistent AI data-loss policy across Windows and macOS environments, helping prevent sensitive data from leaving the organization through unsanctioned large language models (LLMs).
BlackFog targets shadow AI on macOS endpoints
According to BlackFog, ADX Vision aims to address the blind spots associated with shadow AI and unmanaged AI use in enterprises. The company cited its own research showing that most employees now use AI tools in their daily work, with roughly half doing so without employer approval.
On macOS, which is widely used by executives, engineering teams, designers, and other creative professionals handling highly sensitive corporate data and intellectual property, this activity has largely remained out of sight of security teams.
“Every time the threat landscape has shifted over the past decade, the question has been the same: where is the right place to stop data from leaving the organization? Our answer has always been the endpoint, something that has held up across ransomware and now shadow AI,” said Dr. Darren Williams, founder and chief executive officer at BlackFog.
“Bringing ADX Vision to macOS is not a port. It’s the same architectural bet, applied natively to the platform where many of the most sensitive conversations with AI are happening today, on the laptops of executives, engineers, and creative teams,” Williams added.
Native macOS extension aims to close visibility gaps
BlackFog says ADX Vision takes a different approach from most shadow AI monitoring tools, which are typically deployed as browser extensions, network proxies, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs), or SaaS-side integrations limited to a select group of sanctioned LLM providers.
According to the company, these approaches leave significant blind spots, particularly for AI-bound data flows originating from native desktop applications, IDE integrations, or local AI agents.
As a result, security teams may lack visibility into a growing category of AI activity occurring directly on endpoints.
In contrast, ADX Vision is delivered as a native macOS system extension. This enables it to provide visibility into AI-bound data flows on the device before data is encrypted or transmitted, regardless of whether the request originates from a browser, application, or local AI agent.
BlackFog said this approach delivers comprehensive visibility without requiring browser extensions, network proxies, certificate interception, or reliance on users being connected to the corporate network.
ADX Vision for macOS is available now for systems running macOS Ventura and later. The offering is included with existing ADX Vision subscriptions at no additional cost.
Earlier this year, BlackFog released new research highlighting the growing threat of shadow AI. Read more about the findings and how unsanctioned AI adoption is creating new data risks for organizations.