Shadow AI Agents: What CISOs Need to Know
TechTarget, Monday, September 28th, 2026
Shadow AI agents are spreading as business units bypass IT, and shadow AI-driven breaches have more than doubled.
Amy Larsen DeCarlo of GlobalData explains in TechTarget how agentic AI creates new shadow IT challenges as business units adopt autonomous agents, coding assistants and workflow automation without central approval.
Akamai found nearly half of AI conversations happen through personal accounts, and IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report says shadow AI-driven breaches rose from 20% to 43% in a year, with risks including data exfiltration, compliance violations and model poisoning.
The article urges CISOs to understand why employees bypass procedures and to balance agentic AI's benefits with discovery, policy and controls.