In today’s thrilling ‘every digital thing you touch is now AI’ adventure, enterprises are finding themselves at the mercy of a tech revolution that moves faster than a caffeine-infused cheetah. AI is not just in your favorite SaaS platforms or browsing secretly like your cat browsing for existential philosophy at 2 AM—it’s everywhere. And by everywhere, we mean that your security team can’t even begin to find half of its instances.

Of course, organizations are venerating their legacy controls as if they were sacred relics. These controls are so ‘cutting-edge’ they’re practically a throwback; think flip phones in a world of smartphones. We’re talking about systems that were born before ‘AI’ was anything other than a distant dystopian fear whispered about in IT departments, and now they’re trying to manage AI interactions with the precision of a toddler playing with a Rubik’s Cube.

So, what’s the solution to this expanding universe of shadow tools sprouting up like weeds in a neglected garden? Well, it seems companies are doubling down on a strategy that worked so splendidly in the past: crossing their fingers and hoping for the best. After all, when AI tools multiply faster than your inbox on a Monday morning, what could possibly go wrong?