Shadow AI: The Invisible Risk Growing Inside Your Organization

Fortinet outlines the growing risk of "shadow AI"—employees using public generative AI tools outside approved controls—highlighting visibility, data exposure, regulatory compliance gaps, and the limitations of traditional security models; the paper recommends combining network visibility, threat intelligence, and endpoint/data loss prevention (FortiOS, FortiGuard Labs, FortiDLP, FortiSASE) to enforce consistent policy and governance across distributed environments.