Forget Data Leakage: Shadow AI's Real Threat Is Access Control

The article explains that the primary risk from Shadow AI has shifted from employees pasting data into public tools to unmanaged AI agents acting as non-human identities with broad access to enterprise systems; it highlights discovery questions, control gaps in IAM/DLP, and recommends treating agents like identities with continuous inventory, ownership, scoped access, and automated remediation to prevent access-control exposures.