Inside Shadow AI: The Hidden Cyber Threat Already Inside Your Company

Shadow AI is already inside your company—and your security team can’t see it. Employees are using AI tools without approval, confidential data is leaking into public LLMs, and attackers are weaponizing AI faster than we can secure it. In this episode of Today in Tech, host Keith Shaw is joined by Etay Maor of Cato Networks, a cybersecurity expert and adjunct professor at Boston College, to reveal how Shadow AI is now one of the biggest threats to enterprise security. We discuss how AI tools slip past IT monitoring, why AI is now the weakest link, how attackers jailbreak AI models, and why agentic AI could open the next wave of cyberattacks. Etay also shares real-world cybercrime examples using AI—and what companies MUST do now to gain AI visibility, enforce policies, and prevent data leaks. Topics Covered: What is Shadow AI and why is it dangerous? 38% of employees sharing sensitive data with AI tools Why 90% of enterprise AI use is invisible AI misuse by employees and insider risks Jailbroken AI models and zero-knowledge threat actors AI-powered phishing, deepfakes & identity fraud Agentic AI and excessive permissions How to monitor, detect and contain Shadow AI