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Insight for: Show HN: See what your employees are prompting LLMs (without network proxies)

Privent, a lightweight Chromium extension to monitor employee LLM prompting for data leakage.
Analyzed: Apr 10, 2026
Privent addresses a critical and rapidly escalating enterprise security concern: uncontrolled employee interaction with public LLMs. 'Shadow-prompting' represents a significant data leakage vector, exposing sensitive company information. By offering a lightweight Chromium extension that categorizes and scores risk locally, Privent bypasses the complexities and overhead of network proxies. This approach lowers adoption barriers for security teams seeking immediate visibility. The free offering for pilot teams indicates a strategy to gather market data on the scale of this problem across industries. This product directly responds to the urgent need for governance and control over AI tool usage within organizations, a market segment poised for substantial growth as AI adoption proliferates.
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