85% of IT teams claim every AI agent is under control. Only 42% actually know who owns them.
Organizational leaders are nearly twice as likely to hide their AI use compared to all other employees, at 42% versus 23%, according to new Ivanti research surveying 3,900 employees across six countries. Among leaders who conceal that usage, 52% say they do it for a "secret advan
Organizational leaders are nearly twice as likely to hide their AI use compared to all other employees, at 42% versus 23%, according to new Ivanti research surveying 3,900 employees across six countries. Among leaders who conceal that usage, 52% say they do it for a "secret advantage." The same research found 85% of IT professionals claim a named owner exists for every AI agent. Only 42% say ownership is actually clear — a 43-point gap that no governance framework was designed to close. Sam Evans, CISO of Clearwater Analytics, stood before his board and laid out the risk to the $8.8 trillion in assets his firm's platform supports. "The worst possible thing would be one of our employees taking customer data and putting it into an AI engine that we don't manage," Evans told VentureBeat . He brought a solution, not just a problem. Many CISOs VentureBeat interviewed did not. Menlo Security CEO Bill Robbins relayed a conversation with a Top 3 U.S. bank CISO who called shadow AI discovery "a
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