Almost all AI tools are now running with no oversight from IT — putting companies in the firing line
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Shadow AI is just shadow IT with higher blast radius — “fire-and-forget” deployments push risk onto security teams who don’t even have an inventory. If you own a business unit budget, assume you’re already running unvetted AI tools and task someone this week with mapping where models, data, and prompts are actually flowing.
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