Shadow IT: The Security Risks Hiding in Your SaaS Stack
A product manager signs up for an AI writing tool using her corporate email. She pastes the company’s Q3 roadmap into it to help draft a press release. The tool’s terms of service allow it to use input data for model training. Three months later, a competitor’s analyst finds fragments of that roadmap in the tool’s outputs.
Nobody approved the tool. Nobody reviewed its privacy policy. Nobody even knew it existed on the network until the legal team got a call.