{"id":981456,"date":"2025-12-22T10:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981456"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:53:42","slug":"as-ai-adoption-grows-so-does-the-risk-of-shadow-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/as-ai-adoption-grows-so-does-the-risk-of-shadow-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"As AI adoption grows, so does the risk of shadow AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s software outsourcing industry is globally recognised for its scale, expertise, and cost efficiency. It has evolved from basic IT to high-end services like AI, cloud, and cybersecurity, and now holds over 50-59% of the global IT outsourcing market. However, the rapid rise of \u201cShadow AI\u201d \u2013 the use of unauthorised, unmonitored artificial intelligence (AI) tools by employees \u2013 is posing a significant threat to the industry. While designed to boost productivity, this trend creates critical vulnerabilities that threaten the industry\u2019s reputation for data security, compliance, and reliability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s software outsourcing industry is globally recognised for its scale, expertise, and cost efficiency. It has evolved from basic IT to high-end services like AI, cloud, and cybersecurity, and now holds over 50-59% of the global IT outsourcing market. However, the rapid rise of \u201cShadow AI\u201d \u2013 the use of unauthorised, unmonitored artificial intelligence (AI) tools by employees \u2013 is posing a significant threat to the industry. While designed to boost productivity, this trend creates critical vulnerabilities that threaten the industry\u2019s reputation for data security, compliance, and reliability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}