Shadow AI is everywhere, but banning it will only make matters worse.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jason Alan Snyder is a technologist covering AI and innovation. Something is happening beneath the surface of every industry, and ...

What’s dwelling in the dark corners of your tech stack? As CIOs and other business leaders have long learned, what you don’t know can hurt you. Shadow IT is nothing new—but no less frustrating over ...

For years, shadow IT was treated as a manageable problem with a known playbook. Employees bypassed procurement and adopted tools without approval, creating security and compliance risks that were ...

Workers clearly have an appetite for AI but personal accounts are still being used – approved tools need to be easy to reach ...

AI tools are everywhere now and used by virtually everyone in your org. For IT and security teams, that means the job has shifted from "should we allow AI?" to "how do we secure and govern it?" And ...

“Shadow IT”—people within companies using tech products without any explicit directive or authorization from the top—is nothing new. The phenomenon dates at least to the era when certain daring ...

Your employees are most likely using shadow AI. It’s a scary-sounding name for a relatively common practice, but one that could have real consequences for your business. First, it helps to understand ...

From assessing risk to refocusing AI governance, here are four steps CISOs should take when faced with Shadow AI risks. Move over shadow IT; shadow AI is the new risk on the scene. The explosion of ...

AvePoint’s Dana Louise Simberkoff argues that shadow AI could be viewed as a cultural stress test rather than a technology failure. If the experience with shadow IT is any guide, enterprises will soon ...

Shadow IT – employee use of unauthorized applications and devices – has long been the bane of IT departments. Now, as generative AI-powered unified communications and collaboration tools have become a ...