Detecting Shadow AI: Unsanctioned LLM Agents on Enterprise Endpoints: A Taxonomy, an Open Detector and a Controlled Evaluation
Shadow IT, the use of technology that the IT organisation has not approved, is a long-standing governance problem. We argue that autonomous AI agents can make it grow much faster: agents make building tools nearly free, act with their user's privileges, and leave behind scripts, automations and MCP servers that are themselves unsanctioned. A simple compounding model shows that, under its…
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