Tackling Shadow AI In Cloud Workloads
Tenable, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
As enterprise adoption of cloud AI systems balloons, protecting them has become a priority for cybersecurity teams. Shadow AI - the rampant, unsanctioned use of AI apps and services - has emerged as a particularly critical threat.
Protecting your artificial intelligence systems against cyber attacks is a multifaceted endeavor, but at its foundation lies visibility. You need a full, continuously updated inventory of all your AI assets. Every unknown AI asset is a potential attack vector because its security flaws are unmanaged.
As the Cloud Security Alliance tells us in its 'AI Organizational Responsibilities' report: 'Addressing the challenge of shadow AI - unauthorized or undocumented AI systems within an organization - is needed for maintaining control, security, and compliance in AI operations.'