‘Shadow AI’ is real. Vanta wants to help manage it
# Shadow AI: When Your Coworkers Use ChatGPT Without Permission Employees across most companies are quietly using AI tools like ChatGPT for work without approval from management, which can accidentally expose sensitive company data or create security risks. Companies are now under pressure to both encourage AI use and prevent the chaos that comes from uncontrolled adoption—a tension Vanta, a trust management company, is trying to solve with new software that tracks which AI tools employees are actually using and flags potential problems before they happen.
“Shadow IT”—people within companies using tech products without any explicit directive or authorization from the top—is nothing new. The phenomenon dates at least to the era when certain daring professionals purchased newfangled gadgets called “PCs” and brought them to the office, well before having
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