Shadow AI Governance Crisis: Security Boulevard Reports Fortune 500 Have Lost Control of AI Agent Infrastructure
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A Security Boulevard analysis finds that shadow AI agents — autonomous systems with API access that chain actions across services, run continuously without human review, and persist with informally provisioned credentials — have proliferated beyond organizational control. The report distinguishes shadow AI from traditional shadow IT: these systems process, generate, and retain sensitive data while operating outside security team visibility, creating fundamentally new blind spots.