Agentic AI-based services are the new Shadow IT. Change my mind.
I'd argue that very few companies have any real appreciation for how many of their employees are already feeding API keys and other stuff into fairly new and questionable agentic AI tools or platforms. So many companies are like, oh we're taking a wait-and-see approach to adopting AI. Meanwhile, half their dev team is doing critical development work on shared servers that have no authentication or limited (no 2fa) auth.
@briankrebs I have personally witnessed people just blindly feeding secrets and sensitive data right into systems where they straight up say "we're gonna hoover up literally everything you feed us as data for 'training' and might spit it out verbatim to anyone who asks." In an organization that basically threatened Very Bad Things would happen to anyone who even *hinted* at information they deemed 'confidential' to anyone else.
@rootwyrm @briankrebs My company is like that. Even came up with a training video that said we should only use Copilot because it would segregate public and private info. Then microslop noted that Copilot was hoovering up everything. Oh well.