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Shadow AI

Governance

Teams using AI tools without the organization's approval or framework: personal accounts on consumer chatbots where client data gets pasted, and now agents entrusted with credentials. Invisible in the logs and outside any security policy, it exposes data and compliance alike. The durable answer is not a ban: it is an official, governed tool that is at least as useful.

Also called IA fantôme

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