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PPAD reduces the risk of sensitive information leaking through AI tools by protecting access to the content itself, before extraction becomes possible.

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How sensitive content ends up in AI tools

It rarely happens because someone means to cause harm. It happens because AI tools are genuinely useful, and people reach for them without thinking about what they're feeding into them.

Copy and paste into a prompt

Someone copies a paragraph from a confidential report into an AI tool to get a quick summary. The content is now in a third-party system — and potentially used to train future models.

Screenshots as image inputs

Someone takes a screenshot of a sensitive document to use it as an image input to an AI tool, or to send on to someone who was never authorized to see it.

Direct file uploads

An advisor uploads a client document to an AI tool to speed up analysis. A contractor pastes a financial model into a prompt. A departing employee takes files they'll use later — possibly with AI assistance.

It rarely happens because someone means to cause harm. It happens because AI tools are genuinely useful, and people reach for them without thinking about what they're feeding into them.

How PPAD makes it harder

PPAD is not a way to block AI entirely — no tool can do that. It's a way to put real barriers in the path of the most common forms of leakage.

1. Limit access before leakage starts

PPAD applies encryption and access controls to protected emails and files, so only authorized users can open them. If a file is forwarded, downloaded, or shared outside the intended group, unauthorized recipients hit a wall — they can't open it, and therefore can't copy, screenshot, or upload anything from it.

2. Block copy-paste extraction

AI leakage often starts with selecting text and copying it into a prompt. PPAD blocks copy actions in protected files, so even authorized users can't freely lift text out of the file and move it into an AI tool. The content can be read inside the protected environment — just not extracted from it.

3. Prevent screenshot capture

ScreenShield makes screenshots significantly harder by limiting how much content is visible at once through a sliding window, and blocking screen capture attempts when detected. It reduces visual extraction without being able to prevent it entirely.

4. Make misuse traceable with watermarking

Dynamic watermarks with viewer-specific details — name, email, timestamp — mean that if content does get extracted and shared, the source is visible. People behave differently when their name is on every page.

5. Cut off access when risk changes

A file downloaded today can be used weeks later — by a former employee, a lapsed vendor, or someone whose relationship with your organisation has changed. PPAD lets you revoke access any time, even if the file is already sitting on someone else's device.

6. See who accessed what

When a concern arises about how sensitive content has been used, PPAD gives you a detailed activity trail — who opened protected content, when, and from where. That context matters for investigations and compliance reviews.

For some organizations, this isn't just a risk concern, it's a contractual obligation

Enterprise MSAs now routinely prohibit suppliers from transmitting PII and confidential data to third-party AI tools, using it for model training, or retaining it beyond immediate processing. Once a file is emailed or downloaded, there's no native way to prevent a recipient from copying it into an AI tool — a potential breach with no easy recourse. PPAD's encryption ensures that protected files remain inaccessible to AI systems after sharing, which is the practical control these clauses are designed to enforce.

PPAD provides a practical layer of technical control after files leave your systems — with encryption that keeps files unreadable to AI, copy-paste blocking, ScreenShield to make screenshots significantly harder, and revocation if files reach unintended parties.

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PPAD is not an AI blocker

PPAD is designed to keep access tied to you specifically — not just to whoever happens to have the file. The one-time passcode step confirms you are the person the sender intended to share with, before any protected content is shown.

If you're seeing an error about incompatible settings or anonymous access, it's because PPAD doesn't work with anonymous access. This is a security feature — it's what keeps unauthorized recipients blocked.

PPAD and AI risk, across your workflows

In Gmail and Drive

Protect emails and attachments from being forwarded to AI tools or copied into prompts by unauthorized recipients or authorized ones.

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In your platform via API

Protect files delivered through portals, VDRs, and content apps so they remain harder for AI tools to access or index after download.

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In regulated industries

For banking, financial services, and other regulated environments where sensitive documents and AI tools are increasingly in the same workspace.

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