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Shadow AI Is Not a Tool Problem. It’s a Timing Problem.

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In this article Shadow AI spreads not because employees are careless, but because AI governance moves on a different clock than work does. Closing that timing gap, not blocking tools, is the real challenge for security teams. →Shadow AI is a timing problem: policies move in meetings, employees move in prompts →The real control point is the moment before context enters an AI system, not after →Visibility without intervention is not enough: by the time a log exists, the decision has passed →The answer is a safer path that works at the speed of work, not a slower one employees […] The post Shadow

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