Shadow AI Is Growing in Silence While Enterprise Security Falls Behind
Mon May 18 2026
AI & ML
Privacy
Security Management
Vulnerability
thecyberexpress.com
By Niall Browne, CEO and Founder, AIBound
Shadow AI is accelerating alongside artificial intelligence (AI) adoption at a pace that has outgrown most enterprise governance models. Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is accelerating at a pace that has outgrown most enterprise governance models. According to the World Economic Forum, 87% of organizations report that AI-related vulnerabilities are now the fastest-growing cyber risk. Part of this surfaces with employees increasingly deploying autonomous AI agents that connect to MCP servers and external AI that security teams have never assessed, quietly piping sensitive corporate data into systems no one in IT has ever audited — and no one ...