Oct 10 · Week 2 — Secure AI

🧠 Shadow AI

Shadow AI: The Next Generation of Shadow IT

Campaign hubNext: Day 11
Day 10 · Oct 10

🛡️ CyberSecurity Month 2026 · WAIG × DefenAI

🧠 Shadow AI

Shadow AI: The Next Generation of Shadow IT

Campaign day

10

Shadow AI

Week focus

W2

OWASP LLM Top 10

Action items

2

Org checklist today

  • ◆Unapproved chatbots
  • ◆Data uploads
  • ◆No DLP
  • ◆No audit trail
  • ◆WAIG Foundation: Responsible AI policy workshops.
  • ◆DefenAI Labs: Monitoring integrations for AI gateways.
  • ◆Suggested comms format today: Poll.

If it's easy, employees will use it

Survey teams on AI tools used last month

4-part action model

Governance · Technology · Resilience · Incident response

Discover unsanctioned AI tools before data leaves the perimeter.

Governance

AI usage policies and inventory for Shadow AI.

Technology

Secure models, APIs, agents, and data paths.

Resilience

Degrade safely when AI services are abused or unavailable.

Incident response

Include AI abuse cases in severity matrix.

Today's flow

  1. 1

    Understand

    Why Shadow AI matters for your organization today.

  2. 2

    Assess

    Map assets, owners, and gaps against today's theme.

  3. 3

    Act

    Publish approved AI tool list.

  4. 4

    Share

    Publish learning internally and on social — #CyberSecurityMonth2026.

Did you know?

  • 💡Employees adopt AI tools 3× faster than security can review them without enablement.
  • 💡Uploaded documents in consumer AI tools may leave your compliance perimeter.
  • 💡Sanctioned enterprise AI reduces leakage while preserving productivity.

Frameworks & standards

OWASP LLM Top 10NIST AI RMFMITRE ATLAS

Organizational checklist (infographic summary)

  • ✓Publish approved AI tool list.
  • ✓Offer safe enterprise alternative.
  • ✓Share today's infographic with one community audience.
  • ✓Log one improvement in your risk or incident tracker.

Audience awareness infographic

Eight communities · one mission

Tap a card for tailored awareness and today's action — built for sharing.

Shadow AI means using tools your company hasn’t approved — often uploading confidential docs. Use the approved assistant instead.

Share: Shadow AI = data leakage risk. #ShadowAI #CyberSecurityMonth2026

One-click publish

Share Day 10 externally

LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, Facebook, and X — captions tailored for this theme (employees).

Select an audience, then use one-click publish to tailor the share caption for that community.

Mission

Discover unsanctioned AI tools before data leaves the perimeter.

Organizational actions

  • ✓Publish approved AI tool list.
  • ✓Offer safe enterprise alternative.

Partner angles

WAIG: Responsible AI policy workshops.

DefenAI Labs: Monitoring integrations for AI gateways.

Suggested format: Poll

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