The Shadow AI Crisis: Why AI and Cybersecurity Are Colliding Inside Organisations Without IT Teams Knowing
The major threat of AI security within a company may not even be the most sophisticated cyberattack, but an employee putting confidential data into an AI tool that the IT department does not know exists.
The purpose is not about getting rid of AI from the workplace, but rather about eliminating the hidden AI technology.
The phrase “shadow AI” describes the use of AI applications, assistants, extensions, or agents that are not approved by IT or have not gone through a proper risk assessment. While the usual shadow IT involves applications that do not use business information directly, AI tools can process data and come up with outputs making it more difficult for companies to keep track of sensitive data leaks.
The statistics show the rapid increase of the problem. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach 2025 report, 63% of organizations that suffered a data breach had zero...
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