Shadow AI is already in your org. Now what?

If you think your organization has no AI in production, check Slack, email drafts, and the browser extensions your teams installed last quarter. Shadow AI is already here.

The wrong response is a blanket ban. The right response is visibility: discover what's in use, classify risk by data sensitivity, and channel demand toward approved alternatives.

Run a two-week discovery sprint: survey teams, review egress logs, and audit SaaS connections. Categorize tools as prohibited, restricted, or encouraged based on data handling and vendor posture.

Publish a lightweight AI acceptable-use policy — one page, plain language — and pair it with sanctioned tools that are genuinely better than the shadow options. Security wins when the approved path is the easy path.