Shadow AI: the threat lies not in data leakage but in access control

Colleagues, I want to highlight a cybersecurity concern: Shadow AI is no longer only about leaks — it has become an access‑control issue.

Essence: employees and teams create agents (assistants, automations) and assign them service accounts, API keys and tokens.

Risks: agents, as non‑human identities, read, write, delete and execute processes; privileges are often unaudited and persist after the author departs. Research from Token Security and the Cloud Security Alliance confirms this exposure.

Actions: inventory agents, assign owners, restrict privileges, manage lifecycles and automate remediation.

Why it matters: access control determines actual exposure.

How does your team manage agents and their access?

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