Shadow AI sparks new cybersecurity race
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools across workplaces is creating a new cybersecurity challenge for enterprises and opening up a growing market for startups focused on AI governance, monitoring and security.
As employees increasingly use public AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude for drafting emails, analysing documents, writing code, creating presentations and conducting research, companies are grappling with a phenomenon known as Shadow AI — the unauthorised use of AI tools outside approved corporate systems.
