Shadow AI usage has already infiltrated your organization—and it's been running undetected for months. While security teams focus on approving enterprise AI tools, employees have quietly adopted hundreds of unsanctioned applications that process sensitive data without oversight. Our research reveals Shadow AI isn't temporary experimentation—it's become embedded in critical business workflows, creating risks such as:
• Security failures: Popular AI tools lacking basic encryption, MFA, and audit logging processing your data daily
• Market concentration: Over half of all enterprise AI activity flowing through a single platform, creating systemic risk
• Persistent exposure: Unsanctioned AI tools running for 400+ days, accumulating security debt with each passing month
• Small business vulnerability: Companies with limited security resources showing the highest Shadow AI adoption rates
• Compliance gaps: Unmonitored AI usage violating data protection standards while regulators increase scrutiny
• Hidden costs: Organizations with high Shadow AI levels paying an additional $670,000 per data breach
The challenge for security leaders is no longer preventing AI adoption—it's gaining visibility and control over the AI tools already processing your most sensitive data.
This report can help. It reveals the true scope of Shadow AI infiltration across enterprises and provides actionable strategies for transforming ungoverned AI adoption into competitive advantage—based on real-world data from hundreds of organizations.
Download today and discover what's really happening in your environment.
