🇿🇦 English, 29 October 2026, Shadow AI
Unsanctioned AI tools pose pervasive risk to businesses
47% of generative AI users access tools through personal accounts, creating a data exposure problem.
Shadow AI has become one of the most prevalent forms of shadow IT in 2026, with unsanctioned AI tools adopted by employees faster than IT departments can discover or govern them.
The cost of this is also on the increase, with companies experiencing an increase in breach costs and 43% of security incidents using shadow AI.
Addressing shadow AI shouldn’t come down to banning people from using it – that will only make them use it more often, and more secretively.