Does the AI Craze Make Shadow IT Inevitable?

About the Event

If you’ve found yourself questioning whether your coworker is using AI to respond to your emails, you might not be wrong. And while the overuse of em dashes can be annoying, IT teams are being overwhelmed by a far more annoying implication of AI tools: shadow IT.

In fact, a recent report found that ChatGPT is the number one offender in shadow IT. This seemingly inevitable explosion of unauthorized APIs and applications bypassing traditional IT governance introduces an even larger explosion of back door vulnerabilities and an unchecked risk landscape (not to mention the headaches for teams trying to get visibility over their SaaS portfolios). After all, the hardest threats to defend against are the ones you don’t know are there.

During this event, IT Brew – alongside industry experts in IT management and procurement – considers how to pivot security strategies in response to the AI wave, balancing innovation with IT governance priorities, and introducing more adaptable frameworks to manage SaaS.

Here’s what you can expect to cover:

• AI’s shadow IT explosion: how widespread AI adoption is accelerating shadow IT and creating challenges for IT and procurement teams managing SaaS portfolios.
• Moving from prevention to management: how IT teams can evolve alongside new trends in shadow IT by swapping out efforts to completely eliminate it with a renewed focus on cyber resilience overall. Hear from experts advising IT teams to return to foundational security principles and operate under the assumption that shadow IT will remain regardless.
• Shadow IT as market research: how IT teams can find the silver lining and transform shadow IT discoveries into capability mapping of their software landscape, enabling strategic opportunities that reveal infrastructure gaps and drive innovation while maintaining the right security guard rails.