Cracking down on shadow AI is making your business less secure, not more

Security is always a moving target. But AI has made it move faster than many organizations can manage, presenting a gargantuan challenge for SOC teams. The near constant stream of announcements of new models or providers has resulted in a massively expanded attack surface.

Senior Product Manager at Nexthink.

While security teams work hard to review and approve as many tools as possible, the volume is still crushingly high. Today, only 22% of workers rely exclusively on the AI tools their employer provides, while more than a third (35%) of Gen Z employees say they prefer using personal AI applications over company-approved ones. For every sanctioned tool a business governs, most of its workforce is quietly working around it.

If almost 80% of employees use unapproved AI tools, then it isn’t an aberration - it’s the default. Shadow AI is normal across organizations, but the scale of the challenge is...

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