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Shadow AI is already inside your company. Here’s how to get control of it

Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight. For most of the past decade, the list of software a company ran was, at least in theory, one that somebody in IT could find.

Shadow AI is already inside your company. Here’s how to get control of it

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Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight.

For most of the past decade, the list of software a company ran was, at least in theory, one that somebody in IT could find.

Today, however, AI is making that increasingly difficult.

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Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight. For most of the past decade, the list of software a company ran was, at least in theory, one that somebody in IT could find. Today, however, AI is making that increasingly difficult.

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