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Protection

Protection should stop the wrong route—not the work.

Most controls leave people choosing between exposure and a dead end. adapterOS makes the route decision before information leaves, then gives approved work somewhere useful to continue.

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The protected continuation

Refuse the transfer. Preserve the task.

  1. 01 · Requested routeThird-party AIConfidential source attached
  2. 02 · adapterOS boundaryTransfer refusedSource · destination · policy · action
  3. 03 · Protected continuationCustomer-controlled workspaceUseful answer · visible limits · review
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The cost of doing nothing

The gap appears in ordinary attempts to get work done.

The problem is not only a prohibited send. It is the unmanaged copy, abandoned task, or unreviewable decision that follows.

Wrong destination
Confidential information reaches an AI route the company did not approve.
Workaround copies
People reconstruct the work in documents, chats, and exports that are harder to control.
No decision record
Reviewers cannot reconstruct what was allowed, what supported the answer, or why.

Why familiar controls stop short

A warning, a block, and a retrieval system solve different pieces.

None by itself decides whether confidential information may take the requested route and still completes the person’s real task.

  • Policy remindersRecall

    Depend on perfect employee recall at the moment of work.

  • Blanket blockingDead end

    Stops the destination but often stops legitimate work with it.

  • Post-send monitoringAfterward

    Creates evidence after the route decision has already happened.

  • Retrieval aloneNo route decision

    Can improve an answer without deciding whether information may leave.

The first product test

Keep confidential information out of the wrong AI. Keep the real work moving.

A Controlled evaluation makes the approved sources, destination, policy decision, and protected continuation explicit. The result is accepted only when the person can finish the named work inside the boundary.

  1. 01
    Check

    Evaluate the approved source, requested AI destination, policy, and action.

  2. 02
    Protect

    Stop the route before confidential information leaves the customer's control.

  3. 03
    Continue

    Open the approved document scope in adapterOS and complete the analysis.

  4. 04
    Review

    Inspect the answer, missing information, handling decision, and human disposition.

What crosses an unapproved GenAI route

The detected violations contain work people are trying to complete.

Netskope’s observed GenAI data-policy violations were led by source code, regulated data, and intellectual property. A useful control has to govern the route without discarding the task behind it.

  1. Source code42%
  2. Regulated data32%
  3. Intellectual property16%
Share of detected GenAI data-policy violations in anonymized Netskope One telemetry, October 1, 2024–October 31, 2025. The three leading categories are shown; the remainder is omitted. This is platform telemetry, not a breach rate, universal incident rate, or adapterOS result. Netskope Threat Labs, Cloud and Threat Report 2026

Protect the route. Keep the answer useful.

Inspect how people work with approved sources, or test the route decision on a representative workflow.

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