VentureBeat February 17, 2025
Louis Columbus

Security leaders and CISOs are discovering that a growing swarm of shadow AI apps has been compromising their networks, in some cases for over a year.

They’re not the tradecraft of typical attackers. They are the work of otherwise trustworthy employees creating AI apps without IT and security department oversight or approval, apps designed to do everything from automating reports that were manually created in the past to using generative AI (genAI) to streamline marketing automation, visualization and advanced data analysis. Powered by the company’s proprietary data, shadow AI apps are training public domain models with private data.

What’s shadow AI, and why is it growing?

The wide assortment of AI apps and tools created in this way rarely, if...

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