Portal26 has unveiled Recon enabling chief information security officers (CISOs) and security operations teams to ask plain-language questions about enterprise AI usage and receive immediate, evidence-based answers.
The platform enriches every AI prompt, response, agent, and tool touchpoint with contextual data—transforming it into measurable signals of risk, governance gaps, opportunity, and spend—while allowing organisations to adapt security and governance controls in real time as threats and regulations evolve.
Closing detection gaps for security teams
For CISOs and SOC teams, Recon addresses a critical blind spot: the lack of continuous, contextual visibility into how AI is actually being used across the enterprise. Traditional security reviews operate on quarterly or annual cycles, leaving organisations exposed to emerging risks long before they are detected.
The company claims Recon flips this model by identifying exposure the moment a new regulation lands or a new risk pattern emerges, and helping deploy detection rules the same day.
The platform delivers auto-generated risk scorecards with built-in one-month remediation plans, and goes further by offering AI-driven remediation that helps fix flagged issues rather than simply surfacing them.
This adaptive, self-remediating governance means security teams can close gaps before they become audit findings or breach vectors.
Plain-language queries for board-ready answers
Recon’s plain-language query engine allows CISOs to pose nuanced, high-stakes questions and receive instant answers backed by evidence.
Queries such as “What is the impact to my GDPR and CCPA compliance posture from my AI usage?” or “Assess my AI usage against ISO 42001’s mandatory requirements” return actionable insights in minutes rather than months.
The capability extends to generating detailed audits and board-level reporting on demand, giving security leaders a live, defensible view of AI program health.
“Every AI leader I talk to is wrestling with the same problem: they’re accountable for how AI is used across the business, but they don’t have a way to answer all the nuanced questions thrown at them,” said Arti Raman, CEO of Portal26.
She asserts that Recon instantly closes that gap. It gives CIOs, CISOs, CDAOs, and CAIOs a single, plain-language view of risk, adoption, performance, and AI consumption behaviors—so decisions about AI stop being reactive and start being governed.
From reactive to proactive AI risk management
For CISOs, Recon shifts AI risk management from retrospective compliance reviews to continuous, adaptive governance.
The platform tracks real-world AI governance, performance, and ROI, enabling security leaders to report confidently on what KPIs AI agents are actually moving and where investment or intervention is needed.
Department-level maturity mapping plots teams from Dormant to Strategic, helping CISOs prioritise where to govern, where to invest, and where to leave autonomy.
“FDEs are on the front lines of AI deployment, but they’re too often flying blind—pushing models into production without knowing what’s actually happening once they’re live,” said Joe Boggio, VP, strategic alliances at Portal26. “Recon gives FDEs the same visibility their leadership needs, in the moment they need it, so they can move fast without losing sight of risk.”
For CISOs, this means security and risk visibility extends to the edge of deployment, not just the centre.
