It starts with something small. A tired employee opens a browser at 11:47 PM after another exhausting workday. There’s a deadline in the morning. The official company systems are slow, outdated, and frustrating. So instead of waiting for approval from IT, the employee copies confidential sales numbers into an AI chatbot and types: “Create a professional quarterly report summary.” Thirty seconds later, the work is done. The report looks polished. The employee feels productive. 🚀 But something invisible has just happened. Sensitive corporate information has now traveled outside the company’s controlled environment — into servers the organization may know nothing about. No alarms go off. No manager notices. No security team receives an alert. This is the world of Shadow AI — one of the fastest-growing and least understood cybersecurity threats in modern business. ⚠️ And most companies are nowhere near ready for it.…