AI is everywhere. Its risks are moving faster than your controls.
Shadow AI is already inside the tools you use.
AI is baked into the products you already have: Google search, Microsoft Copilot reading your SharePoint, an assistant auto-summarising your emails. Every one of them is an AI you did not realise was connected to your data.
Your sensitive data leaves on every prompt.
Names, contracts, financial and health details travel to AI servers in plaintext. Once it leaves, you cannot control what happens to it.
AI can be turned against you.
Prompt injection, jailbreaks, and tool-calling attacks trick AI into revealing data or acting on your behalf. This is a live attack surface, not a future risk.
Regulators now demand proof.
The EU AI Act and GDPR require evidence of how data is handled. If you cannot show it, you cannot prove you are compliant.