Every keystroke in a mainstream AI tool sends a company’s most valuable IP to infrastructure it cannot control — third-party servers, LLM APIs, and systems far beyond its security perimeter.
Compliance certificates check boxes; they don’t stop source code and proprietary data from leaving the building. Today every AI tool asks customers to trust its infrastructure. For defense, finance, and regulated industries, vendor opacity, unaudited inference, and training-data leakage make that disqualifying — so they ban the tools or quietly absorb the risk.
The status quo
Vendor opacity
Unaudited inference
Training-data leakage
No proof of where code ran

