What's inside
- 01: The quiet reality
- 02: Why banning it doesn't work
- 03: What it's actually costing you
- 04: The audit
- 05: What "good" looks like
- 06: Where to start
Your key takeaways
Invisible scale
Around half of employees already use AI at work, most with real company data. Yet only a minority of organisations can see or control it.
Bans backfire
Blocking public tools stops the data leaks and the productivity, and people route around the block anyway on personal devices.
Two-sided cost
The risk isn't only sensitive data leaving the building; it's the knowledge you already own staying locked away. Shadow AI is a symptom of that gap as much as a security risk.