Shadow AI is Surging - Getting AI Adoption Right Is Your Best Defense
CSO Online, Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Restricting access only compounds AI's risks. Establishing a foundation for general-purpose AI experimentation will instead set your organization on a secure journey to business-driven process enhancement.
AI adoption in the enterprise is no longer theoretical. It is already happening, whether organizations are ready or not. Employees are using publicly available AI tools to complete real work.
They are summarizing documents, writing emails, generating reports, translating materials, producing code, and answering questions. They're doing this not because someone told them to, but because the tools solve real problems quickly and effectively. The people closest to the work have moved forward. The only question is whether leadership has noticed.