Uncover Shadow AI with Data Bill of Materials
Secure AI, Protect Data, Automate Compliance
AI models learn from vast amounts of personal and proprietary data, they can unintentionally expose sensitive information, generate biased outcomes, or breach evolving global regulations.
To ensure trust, transparency, and accountability in AI-driven systems, organizations need end-to-end governance and visibility, not just traditional privacy controls.
This is where Ardent Privacy’s TurtleShield Platform empowers enterprises to securely scale AI while staying compliant with standards like Cybersecurity Maturity Model Compliance (CMMC), and evolving U.S. privacy & cybersecurity regulations.
AI is transforming industries, but also creating new governance and compliance risks that traditional governance, risk and compliance tools cannot manage.
Without proper AI oversight, enterprises face delayed projects, compliance penalties, and data exposure risks.
In 2024 alone, European regulators issued €1.2B in AI-related fines, underscoring the urgency of AI governance.
The Solution: TurtleShield AI Governance
Ardent Federal’s TurtleShield Platform automates AI risk management and compliance, giving you visibility, control, and trust over how your AI systems use data.
With AI-specific modules, TurtleShield transforms manual compliance into an automated, audit-ready governance framework.
Step 1: Discover
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Scan your entire data environment in days, not month
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Use our patented “oil drilling” approach to find AI training data
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Build complete inventory of sensitive data across all systems
Step 2: Govern
- Implement automated privacy impact assessment for AI
- Set up consent management for AI processing
- Establish real time monitoring of AI model behavior
Step 3: Automate
- Transform manual compliance into automated workflows
- Monitor AI systems continuously for risk and vulnerabilities
- Generate an audit report automatically across global regulations
Key benefits
Outcome: Deploy AI faster, with built-in compliance, privacy, and governance.
Data discovery is often a complex, costly, and resource-heavy process that becomes a major barrier for organizations aiming to strengthen privacy and security. TurtleShield DD (Data Discovery) by Ardent Federal revolutionizes this process with its ability to discover data efficiently and at scale, enabling faster actions and cost-effective compliance. It empowers organizations to access and analyze datasets that would be difficult or impossible to reach using traditional discovery methods.
Ardent Federal’s TurtleShield Data Discovery tool integrates advanced technology with an intuitive interface, allowing businesses to identify, manage, and protect sensitive data more effectively. By automating data discovery and mapping, it minimizes manual effort and enhances compliance with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Compliance (CMMC), and evolving U.S. federal & cybersecurity regulations while ensuring protection of personal and consumer information.
Key benefits of implementing an effective data discovery process include:
- Improved understanding of data your organization holds, storage locations, access rights, and transmission pathways
- Continuous and comprehensive monitoring of data access and usage
- Strengthened risk management and streamlined regulatory compliance
- Complete data visibility across the organization
- Context-based data classification
- Efficient identification, categorization, and tracking of sensitive information
- Enhanced ability to clean, reuse, and optimize data assets
- Scalable data access and collaboration across teams
Organizations face significant barriers when implementing data discovery:
The Solution: TurtleShield for Data Discovery
TurtleShield automates the discovery, classification, and mapping of sensitive data across an organization using machine learning. It creates a detailed data inventory to identify risks, improve data hygiene, and minimize breach exposure. Designed for compliance with U.S. Federal regulations like COPPA, FERPA, and HIPAA, TurtleShield replaces manual spreadsheets with automated, transparent, and accountable data management.
Automated Data Inventory and Mapping
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Data Discovery
The tool scans an organization’s entire data ecosystem to discover where sensitive data resides. This includes structured and unstructured data stored across various systems, both on-premises and in the cloud.
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Data Identification
After discovery, the tool categorizes and identifies sensitive data types such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial records, health data (HIPAA), COPPA, FERPA and more.
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Data Mapping
It maps the flow of data across the organization, helping visualize data processing activities. This ensures that organizations know where their critical data is stored, processed, and transferred, which is essential for compliance.
Automate CMMC Compliance
Secure Your Defense Contracts with Automated CMMC Readiness
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) now requires Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) for all defense contractors handling Federal Contract Information (FCI) and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
Non-compliance can lead to lost bids, contract termination, and legal exposure.
With Ardent Federal’s TurtleShield Platform, automate stages of your CMMC compliance, from risk discovery to audit readiness.
CMMC enforcement is here, delays cost contracts.
Contract Exclusion Risk
Starting December 16, 2024, non-certified vendors can’t bid on new DoD contracts.
Operational Shutdown
No CMMC = no CUI access = halted defense work.
Complex Assessments
Manual documentation and fragmented controls increase failure risk.
Deadline Pressure
By October 2025, full compliance becomes mandatory for all defense suppliers.
Beyond 2025: Continuous enforcement and penalties for non-compliance.
The Solution: TurtleShield for CMMC Compliance
TurtleShield empowers organizations to achieve and maintain CMMC certification through AI-driven automation and risk-based intelligence.
Automated Risk Assessment
Instantly identify compliance gaps and determine your required CMMC level based on your contracts and data handling scope.
Asset & Data Risk Mapping
Map systems, assets, and data flows handling FCI and CUI, ensuring full visibility of your compliance surface.
AI-Powered Data Discovery
Eliminate human error with patented AI that automatically identifies and classifies sensitive data across all environments.
Compliance Gap Assessment
Run automated evaluations against CMMC Levels 1–3, generating evidence-ready documentation for auditors.
Guided Remediation
Receive actionable insights and step-by-step remediation plans to resolve non-compliance quickly and effectively.
Certification & Audit Readiness
Prepare confidently for C3PAO assessments with verified, automated documentation and continuous compliance tracking.