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Shadow AI Deployments: Inventorying What You Don't Know You Have
Shadow AI happens when employees deploy AI without IT/security knowledge. Inventorying is the first step to managing it.
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- 1The premise
- 2shadow AI
- 3inventory
- 4security risk
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The premise
Shadow AI deployments create unmanaged security and compliance risk; inventorying is the first step.
What AI does well here
- Survey teams about AI tools they use (anonymous, non-punitive)
- Monitor for AI tool API calls from corporate networks
- Provide approved alternatives so shadow AI becomes unnecessary
- Update policies based on what teams actually need
What AI cannot do
- Eliminate shadow AI through prohibition alone
- Substitute survey for actual usage monitoring
- Make sanctioned AI as flexible as the shadow alternatives
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