Employees across every department are experimenting with generative AI tools to write emails, analyze data, summarize documents, and debug code. According to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, one in five organizations experienced a breach tied to shadow AI, and 63% of breached organizations either lacked an AI governance policy or were still building one. Meanwhile, research shows that roughly 80% of office workers now use some form of public AI, often without their IT department’s knowledge or approval.
This gap between adoption and governance is creating an unmanaged attack surface that traditional security tools may overlook.
