July 17, 2025
The Silent Risk Inside Your Enterprise Security: Why CISOs Must Replace Shadow AI with Sovereign AI
Across enterprises and public sectors alike, AI is now embedded in everyday workflows, often in ways IT and security teams never imagined. Employees are moving beyond the experimentation stage; in fact, they have already started actively feeding corporate documents, HR data, code snippets, and even private draft policies into public AI platforms like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude, and so on, without realizing the long-term consequences. This behavior, known as “Shadow AI”, has become the next major blind spot for CISOs and enterprise security leaders. While AI adoption is surging, security governance is somehow failing to keep pace with this surge. And what makes this trend especially dangerous is that employees aren’t acting maliciously, they’re just trying to work smarter, faster, and more effectively. But unfortunately, without a safe, internal alternative, they’re unintentionally putting your organization’s most sensitive information at risk.