Shining a Light on Shadow AI: What It Is and How to Find It

The blog examines the rise of “Shadow AI” in application development, where developers deploy AI models and agents without security oversight, expanding attack surface and compliance risk. It highlights threats such as prompt injection, data leakage via RAG, unauthorized actions by autonomous agents, and open-source licensing/IP pitfalls, and advocates for detecting AI components in codebases, enforcing policy (e.g., license compliance), sanitizing inputs/outputs, and leveraging compliant services to meet regulatory demands like the EU AI Act.