Shadow AI and the Silent Breach - Securing the Invisible

Explore the hidden security risks of Shadow AI in this 42-minute conference talk from BSides Edmonton 2025. Discover how unsanctioned and unmanaged machine learning models operating outside official oversight create complex security vulnerabilities similar to Shadow IT. Learn about the severe consequences of uncontrolled AI deployment, including data leakage, compliance violations, biased model outputs, and insecure code implementation. Understand the challenges enterprises face as AI adoption accelerates and gain insights into identifying and securing these invisible AI systems that pose silent breach risks to organizational security. Examine practical approaches to managing the growing threat landscape created by unauthorized AI tools and models that operate beyond traditional IT governance frameworks.