Shadow AI 101: What it is and how to detect and govern it in 2026
From the source: Flexera Blog
Somewhere in your company right now, someone is pasting sensitive data into a consumer AI chatbot. Or using an external AI tool or AI model without approval. Or wiring an AI agent into internal company data. No ticket. No security review. None of it shows up in a typical software inventory, and that’s exactly the problem. IT and security teams have little to no visibility into what people are…
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