Shadow IT risks are on the rise as GenAI tools gain popularity with employees

VentureBeat October 17, 2024
VB Staff

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Enterprises have always faced the risk of a data breach, but today the threat has expanded by many magnitudes, in part due to the boom of generative AI tools. Gartner recently found that the number of SaaS applications used per employee has doubled since 2019, and a good chunk of those applications are AI tools that employees are using without IT oversight.

Unmanaged apps aren’t protected by controls like single sign-on (SSO) or multifactor authentication (MFA), so there’s no visibility into whether these apps, which potentially contain sensitive data, are being accessed with secure credentials, or what type of data or intellectual property is being leaked out into the greater internet, thanks to ChatGPT, Gemini and other...

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