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What Is Shadow AI, and Why It's a Real Security Problem (opens in new tab)

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Shadow AI is the unapproved use of AI tools at work. Here is what it actually is, why it creates security and compliance exposure, and how Bifrost Edge brings it under control at the endpoint. Somewhere in your company right now, someone is pasting a customer list into a personal ChatGPT account to clean up an email. A developer has a coding agent pointed at a repo that still has live credentials in it. Someone in marketing wired up an MCP server they found over the weekend so their assistant...

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