Dapto Shield adds a security and governance layer between your AI applications, agents, and business systems.
Control what AI can access, protect sensitive information, enforce policies, validate AI interactions, require human approval where needed, and maintain a record of what happened.
AI used to answer questions. Now AI agents can search company data, read documents, call APIs, update records, send messages, and trigger workflows.
That makes AI more useful. It also creates new questions.
Dapto Shield helps put those controls in one place.
The questions that follow
Four sets of controls that sit between your AI systems and the business data and actions behind them.
Protect sensitive data
Apply data-access rules before information is sent to an AI model or agent.
Shield can help protect information such as
Use masking and access policies to reduce unnecessary exposure of sensitive information.
Control AI access
Not every user, application, or agent should have access to the same data or actions.
Shield can apply role- and policy-based controls based on
Put guardrails around AI actions
AI agents increasingly interact with business systems.
Shield helps define boundaries around actions such as
Low-risk actions can proceed automatically. Sensitive actions can require additional checks or human approval.
Validate AI interactions
AI can produce incomplete, unsupported, or incorrect responses. Dapto Shield can validate configured AI interactions against approved business data and knowledge sources before the result is used or an action proceeds.
Depending on the workflow, Shield can
Important distinction
Shield does not promise “zero hallucinations.” It gives you controls to reduce, detect, and manage AI errors before they create a business problem.
When AI starts interacting with business systems, you need more than a chat history.
A record of AI activity creates better visibility for operations, security reviews, investigations, and governance.
Dapto Shield can help record
Not every decision should be automated. Define when AI can proceed on its own and when a person needs to review the request.
Answering an approved customer FAQ.
Sending a high-value quote.
Updating sensitive customer or financial information.
Attempting to access information outside the user's permission.
The goal is not to put a person into every AI workflow. The goal is to put a person into the right ones.
Every request passes through the same sequence of checks, whichever model, agent, or application started it.
A user, application, or AI agent requests information or attempts an action.
Shield evaluates the user, agent, requested data, action, and applicable policies.
Restricted information can be blocked, filtered, or masked before it reaches the AI model.
The request is sent to the approved model, agent, data source, or business system.
Configured validation and business rules are applied before the result is returned or the action continues.
Sensitive or higher-risk actions can pause until an authorized person approves them.
Requests, policies, actions, approvals, and exceptions can be captured for monitoring and audit.
You should not have to replace your AI stack to add controls. Dapto Shield is designed to sit across existing AI applications and business systems.
Dapto Shield can support AI across different parts of the business.
Control which employees can access which information through AI.
Protect internal and sensitive information while allowing AI to answer from approved knowledge.
Limit the systems, tools, and actions available to autonomous agents.
Protect sensitive information while extracting, reviewing, or analyzing documents.
Apply access rules, validation, and approval controls before AI-driven actions are completed.
Add shared security and governance controls without rebuilding them separately in every application.
AI security should not depend only on the application calling the model. Dapto Shield provides reusable controls that can be applied across AI use cases.
Control which users and agents can access data, models, tools, and actions.
Mask or restrict sensitive information before it is shared with AI.
Apply business and security rules consistently across AI interactions.
Check configured responses and actions against trusted information and business rules.
Require approval for selected actions or risk levels.
Track AI usage, policy violations, and workflow exceptions.
Keep evidence of AI requests, decisions, approvals, and actions.
Policies, permissions, and controls have to reflect how your business actually uses AI. Dapto can help assess your AI environment, define the controls you need, configure Dapto Shield, and integrate those controls into your AI applications and workflows.
Understand where AI is already being used and where the largest risks are.
Define data rules, agent permissions, approval requirements, and AI policies.
Connect Shield to your AI models, applications, data sources, and business systems.
Test permissions, data exposure, prompt injection, unsafe actions, and failure conditions.
Review AI usage, exceptions, new agents, new models, and changing business requirements.
You do not need a massive governance program before your business can start putting controls around AI.
Start with the highest-risk AI use cases and expand controls as adoption grows.
Dapto Shield helps organizations start with practical questions
Dapto Shield can support governance processes aligned to the frameworks and requirements relevant to your organization.
Examples may include
Shield provides technical controls and auditability that can support your broader security, privacy, and governance program. Installing Shield does not by itself make an organization compliant with any of these standards.
Designed around models, agents, data access, tool use, and AI-driven actions rather than treating AI as just another application.
Apply controls across different model providers instead of tying governance to one AI vendor.
Add a governance layer around the systems and data you already use.
Automate low-risk work while maintaining approval boundaries for higher-risk actions.
Reuse security and governance controls across multiple AI applications instead of rebuilding them for each project.
Dapto Shield is part of the Dapto product and accelerator portfolio.
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