Pexels/RDNE Stock project Shadow AI, or when artificial intelligence tools are used without the green light from a firm’s higher-ups or information technology department, has become widespread in the workplace, with 78% of employees confessing to using unauthorized tools. While employees may do this to boost productivity, by entering sensitive or proprietary information into unapproved…
Artificial Intelligence is becoming embedded in everyday work faster than many organisations can govern it. While businesses continue to invest in approved AI platforms and developing governance frameworks, employees have already begun finding their own solutions. Our latest research found that 75% of employees globally now use AI at work every day and 64% describe…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming embedded in the modern workplace, with employees are increasingly turning to AI tools to work more efficiently and boost productivity. This growing demand for faster, more effective ways of working is driving the rise of shadow AI – the use of AI tools outside approved organisational controls and governance…
Article by Amritesh Anand, Vice President & MD – Technology Services Group at In2IT Technologies Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly evolved from a novelty to a regular tool in the workplace. It helps with tasks like drafting emails, summarising documents, coding, and data analysis. AI-powered platforms are changing how people work. As more employees…
Most enterprise security programs were built to protect servers, endpoints, and cloud accounts. None of them was built to find a customer intake form that a product manager vibe coded on Lovable over a weekend, connected to a live Supabase database, and deployed on a public URL indexed by Google. That gap now has a…
SAN FRANCISCO, May 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Operant AI, the leader in AI security, today announced the launch of Operant Endpoint Protector, a new addition to its AI Defense Platform that lets enterprise IT and security teams discover, detect, and defend against threats across every AI tool, coding agent, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-connected…
Microsoft is expanding its enterprise AI strategy by introducing new controls in Edge designed to limit “shadow AI” usage. The move comes as the company removes certain Copilot features from Notepad, while continuing to strengthen its enterprise-focused AI ecosystem. New Edge feature aims to block unauthorized AI tools According to the Microsoft 365 roadmap, IT…
As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of security teams, bypassing controls and creating new blind spots in what is known as shadow AI. While similar to…
Somewhere in your organization right now, someone is pasting customer data into an AI tool you’ve never approved. Not long ago, the challenge was employees spinning up cloud services, personal Dropbox accounts and unauthorized SaaS tools without telling IT. That was a headache. What’s happening now is a different problem at a different scale. Today,…
Why AI Changes the Shadow IT Risk Equation for SMBs In the past, advanced AI required significant investment, specialized infrastructure and deep expertise. Today, that’s no longer true. An employee can deploy an AI agent, connect it to cloud services and grant it access to email, internal files or business systems, often without IT…
