Security News Study Finds 50% of Workers Use Unapproved AI Tools

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https://www.securityweek.com/the-shadow-ai-surge-study-finds-50-of-workers-use-unapproved-ai-tools/

An October 2024 study by Software AG suggests that half of all employees are Shadow AI users, and most of them wouldn’t stop even if it was banned.

The problem is the ease of access to AI tools, and a work environment that increasingly advocates the use of AI to improve corporate efficiency. It is little wonder that employees seek their own AI tools to improve their personal efficiency and maximize the potential for promotion.

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The Shadow AI Surge: Study Finds 50% of Workers Use Unapproved AI Tools

As Shadow AI adoption accelerates inside the enterprise, sensitive data exposure and geopolitical risk rise.

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[bazang]

Nothing to see here. Very few entities practice and enforce good organizational or enterprise security.

Want to know why enterprise and government security is so expensive? The answer is actually obvious.

People being what they are - people - and all the stuff they do and do not do. Even in highly regulated and sensitive data environments, it is rare that the organization implements, practices, and enforces effective, disciplined security.