Zala — Making AI Useful
Zala Proof · AI usage control and governance · in pilot

See, control and prove every use of AI across your organisation.

Your people are already using AI. Zala Proof shows which, by whom and on whose approval. It reads the tools you already own, applies your decisions where AI is used, and puts evidence behind every claim, all on your own site.

The Zala Proof AI map: departments, sources and AI services connected on a 3D canvas, with a day-by-day replay
The AI map: people, the sources that saw them, and the AI they reached. All screens here are from the demo environment, with synthetic data.
The challenge

AI arrived before the controls did.

It comes through websites, personal accounts, features switched on inside business apps, desktop tools and agents. No single team sees all of it.

Without AI usage control

Use you cannot see

AI websites, personal accounts, AI switched on inside business apps, coding agents and their tools.

Data you cannot trace

Sensitive data pasted into a prompt, large uploads, and no record of what kind of data went where.

Rules nothing applies

A policy people can read but no tool enforces. Blocking everything only moves use somewhere you see even less.

Without AI governance

No single inventory

IT, security and the business each hold part of the list, and internal AI systems often sit on none of them.

No owner, no risk tier

Nobody is accountable for an AI system, and a high-risk one goes live the same way as a low-risk one.

Nothing to show an auditor

Decisions live in email. Mapping them to a framework becomes a project every time someone asks.

Coverage comes first

Without visibility, every later stage fails quietly.

Coverage is not one feature among many. It decides how far you can trust everything after it.

Govern

The list misses what nobody reported.

Enforce

Rules cover only the services you know.

Test

Tests pass on the paths you thought of.

Respond

No alert fires for what no source shows.

Report

A clean report gives false comfort.

Zero findings from a channel you do not watch means unknown, not safe.

Why one tool is not enough

Good tools, built for other jobs.

Each sees one slice of AI use. Zala Proof does not replace them: it reads them, joins them, and shows what is still missing.

ToolStrong atWhere it leaves a gap for AI
EDRManaged endpointsUnmanaged devices, SaaS features, which account was used
NDRTraffic on mirrored linksOff-network users, cloud-to-cloud calls, AI inside SaaS
Web gateway, SSEWeb use that passes through itTraffic that bypasses it; AI under an approved domain
DLPData on its own channelsNo AI inventory; blind on channels it does not cover
Identity, SSOCompany sign-insPersonal accounts; AI apps outside single sign-on
SIEMThe logs you send itOnly what is fed in; no AI catalog or policy to compare

Typical deployments, in our own assessment; it varies by product.

How it fits together

One product across your AI estate.

Start with what you already have, and connect only what you choose.

What it reads
Network
Firewall, SASE, mirror port
Endpoints
EDR, desktop agent, browser
Identity
Directory, sign-ins, connected apps
SaaS and cloud
Copilot, AI in SaaS, cloud AI
AI gateway and models
Gateways, model request logs
AI registers and code
Your register, repositories, Kubernetes
Discover
Govern
Enforce
Zala Proof
Test
Respond
Report
What it works with
Firewalls
Block a service, once approved
EDR
Isolate a device, once approved
Identity
Disable an account, once approved
SIEM and SOAR
Syslog, webhooks, playbooks
Your teams
Teams, Slack, email alerts
Board and auditors
Reports and the evidence ledger
See

Coverage and discovery

Zala Proof reads the tools you already run, 26 kinds of source in all, and matches what they show against a catalog of over 1,500 AI services. A coverage map says what each source can show and where nothing is connected.

  • Websites, desktop programs, agents, MCP servers, model APIs, AI in code
  • An inventory of AI services and internal AI, joined across sources
  • The model companies behind the services you approved, as the vendor states them
Zala Proof AI inventory: AI assets, services by people and by source, and their place on the approved list
The AI inventory: services by people and by source, and their place on your approved list.
Zala Proof AI inventory table: each AI asset with its approved-list status, what needs attention, and its evidence level and source
Every asset: its lifecycle, what needs attention, and the evidence level and source behind it.
Control

Decide once, apply it where AI is used

An approved list, attested by your compliance owner. Every AI asset gets an owner, a lifecycle and a risk tier. The browser extension and desktop agent then apply the decision, and response actions run through the security tools you already own.

  • Allow, warn or block each AI service in managed Chrome and Edge
  • Sensitive data checked before it is sent; the prompt is never reported
  • Nothing changes on your systems until a second person approves it
Zala Proof findings page: decisions needed, notes, what can be seen, and decisions by department
Findings: what needs a decision, apart from what is only worth knowing, beside what the run could see.
Prove

Evidence for every claim, and no blended score

Each claim says what it rests on: seen, you confirmed, vendor says, our conclusion, or not known. Control tests check that a block really blocks. Every decision goes into a hash-chained ledger, and reports go to the board and your auditors.

  • Control tests and red-teaming of your own AI apps, in English and Arabic
  • An activity timeline for investigations, opened only with a recorded reason
  • Decisions mapped to the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF and regional rules
How it runs

Inside your network, under your control.

One VM, on your hypervisor

A virtual appliance for VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix or KVM, or containers on your own Linux VM. It needs no general internet access, and Zala has no standing access.

Nothing in the traffic path

It reads what your tools already record, and the optional network sensor keeps metadata only. Packets are not stored and traffic is not decrypted.

Names stay protected

Activity is stored under pseudonyms, with names sealed apart. Your own staff see names, and an administrator can turn that off for anyone. Partners and auditors only ever see pseudonyms.

Arabic and English

The whole product and its reports, in both languages, with Arabic-aware checks for sensitive data.

Where it is going

What we are working on now.

Zala Proof is in pilot and moving quickly. This is the work in front of us, stated as it stands.

In development
Ask Zala, in seconds

An assistant on the appliance that answers from your own records and cites them. Counts and lists already answer at once; we are bringing written answers down to seconds on an on-site GPU, in testing today.

In development
More answers from the records

Every question that can be answered exactly from the records should not go to a model at all. We keep moving more of them across.

Ongoing
Connectors proven on live systems

Each source is checked against real samples when it is connected. We are widening the set confirmed on live systems, vendor by vendor.

Planned
Deeper incident response

Turning alerts, investigations and response actions into full cases that hand their lessons back to policy.

Start with what you already have.

A pilot runs on your own data, on your own site. A first picture can come from exported files, with nothing changed on your network. Tell us what you run, and we will show you what it can see.