MIAMI, FL / ACCESS Newswire / February 24, 2026 / As artificial intelligence rapidly accelerates the scale and precision of cyberattacks, a growing number of security incidents show that attackers no longer rely on malware or technical exploits alone. Instead, AI-driven attacks increasingly succeed by learning from real corporate documents, including contracts, invoices and internal files, that employees unknowingly send outside their organizations or feed into unsanctioned AI tools.

ShelterZoom, an award-winning deep-tech company and multi-category creator, today announced a structural defense designed to stop this emerging class of attacks at its source. By eliminating the release of reusable document content, ShelterZoom's Document GPS^® platform introduces what the company describes as a kill switch for Shadow AI and AI-driven social engineering.

"AI doesn't break into systems, it learns from documents," said Chao Cheng-Shorland, CEO and Co-Founder of ShelterZoom. "Once real files leave an organization, they become training material for increasingly precise impersonation and manipulation used by AI-driven attacks. We built Document GPS to stop that learning loop entirely."

A New Digital Element for the AI Era

At the core of ShelterZoom's approach is its patented and trademarked invention of Document Token^®, a new digital element that makes ownership, control and security intrinsic to every file. Document Token is powered by blockchain technology, ensuring tamper resistance, traceability and persistent enforcement across organizational boundaries.

Just as modern software transformed applications and databases into portable, controllable units that could operate anywhere, Document Token transforms documents and files into ownable, controllable, trackable and secure digital units, regardless of where they travel.

Shutting Down Shadow AI at Its Primary Source

ShelterZoom's kill switch operates where Shadow AI exposure and AI-driven impersonation attacks most commonly originate today: email, web applications and mobile workflows. With Document GPS, organizational outbound files and email attachments are invisible to AI systems and are not physically sent. Instead, they are tokenized and governed by persistent cryptographic and blockchain-based controls, while private messages are encrypted by default.

This means documents and content never become raw material that AI systems can collect, learn from or reuse. Without real documents to analyze, AI-driven attackers can't access the information they need to convincingly impersonate people, escalate attacks or reuse authentic content.

"There's nothing for AI systems to harvest or learn from," Cheng-Shorland said. "When real documents and message context never escape, AI-driven attacks lose their accuracy, credibility and leverage."

As Document Token adoption expands across additional systems and platforms, this same control model extends naturally without redesign, creating a future-proof foundation for protecting data in the AI era.

Why Traditional Defenses Are Failing

Most cybersecurity investments today focus on detecting malicious emails, suspicious links or anomalous behavior at the perimeter. But once an employee responds to an email and shares a document, even with good intent, traditional controls largely stop working.

"This is where AI attacks compound," Cheng-Shorland said. "Detection might stop some emails, but no detection system can prevent what happens after a human replies. That's the moment AI learns."

By preventing the release of document content, Document GPS breaks the feedback loop AI attackers depend on, collapsing their ability to impersonate trusted identities, reuse authentic materials and scale attacks across organizations.

This shift reflects ShelterZoom's continued leadership in moving cybersecurity away from perimeter-based defenses toward data- and file-level protection with zero-trust enforcement, aligning security controls with how information actually moves in modern enterprises.

Reducing the Economic Incentive for AI-Driven Attacks

Without access to authentic documents, content and message context, AI-assisted attackers are forced to rely on generic lures and guesswork. This dramatically reduces success rates and makes organizations using Document GPS significantly less attractive targets.

"AI can't exploit what it can't read or reuse," Cheng-Shorland added. "By removing documents and content from the AI attack surface, we're not just blocking attacks. We're removing the incentive to target the organization in the first place."

About ShelterZoom

ShelterZoom, headquartered in Miami, FL, is a deep tech company and multi-category innovator in cybersecurity, digital content ownership and business continuity. With nearly 80 patents and trademarks in its portfolio, ShelterZoom is redefining data ownership, tracking and protection as well as business continuity. Recognized by Gartner® as a market leader for three consecutive years (2022-2024), ShelterZoom continues to shape the future of digital resilience. From inventing document tokens and Single Source of Truth^® (SSOT) technology to building Spare Tire, a life-saving solution for healthcare EHR downtime, and developing safeguards against AI hallucinations, data inaccuracies and data leaks, ShelterZoom is creating platforms and solutions that are shaping the future of data ownership, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and the next generation of the internet.

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SOURCE: ShelterZoom Corp.