Block the Prompt, Not the Work: The End of "Doctor No"

This article argues that traditional enterprise security's "block everything" approach creates a shadow workaround economy that increases risk rather than reducing it.

• •Endpoint agents and firewall-based blocking cause users to route sensitive data through personal Gmail, unmanaged AI tools, and browser extensions to bypass controls
• •SSL inspection via SWG/SASE solutions frequently breaks critical business tools like Slack and GenAI interfaces, forcing CISOs to choose between visibility and usability
• •A U.S. law firm case study shows 70% of users bypassed a DeepSeek domain block via browser extensions silently routing corporate data to servers in China
• •The proposed 2026 standard is Session-Level Governance: prompt-level DLP that redacts PII before submission, extension risk-scoring, and agentless clipboard/upload controls for BYOD devices
• •Security teams should shift from gatekeeper to enabler by governing data at the browser session level rather than blocking destinations

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