{"id":182379,"date":"2026-01-28T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/corporate-workers-willing-to-use-shadow-ai-to-enhance-speed\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:20:09","slug":"corporate-workers-willing-to-use-shadow-ai-to-enhance-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/corporate-workers-willing-to-use-shadow-ai-to-enhance-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate workers willing to use shadow AI to enhance speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/corporate-workers-shadow-ai-speed\/810721\/\">Corporate workers willing to use shadow AI to enhance speed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/corporate-workers-shadow-ai-speed\/810721\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/corporate-workers-shadow-ai-speed\/810721\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 12:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecuritydive.com\">www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>About six of every 10 corporate employees are willing to use shadow AI tools if it helps them meet work deadlines, according to a report from security firm BlackFog.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe report shows that 86% of workers are using AI tools at least once a week to accomplish certain tasks and more than one-third are using free versions of tools approved by their employers.\u00a0<br \/>\nIn addition, seven of every 10 C-level executives are willing to let faster production outweigh the need for increased security, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consistent story we have heard is that CEO\u2019s have mandated the adoption and use of AI and have allocated a significant amount of funds to do this, and this is taking precedence over the security concerns,\u201d said Darren Williams, founder and CEO of BlackFog. \u201cThe efficiency gains are too large to ignore.\u201d<br \/>\nAs a result, IT security teams are left playing catchup in an effort to provide the proper amount of controls.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe findings were based on a survey of 2,000 workers at U.K. and U.S. companies, with the numbers evenly split between the two countries. The survey was conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of Black Fog.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe report raises concerns about whether companies are encouraging unsafe use of AI in order to meet productivity goals. Security leaders have cautioned that AI deployment needs to have guardrails and proper governance to make sure companies can protect their critical systems, secure data and make sure they don\u2019t put their own customers at risk of follow-on attacks.\u00a0<br \/>\nA report released by Netskope earlier this month showed that employees were using AI tools via their own personal accounts, which meant corporate security protocols were not being followed.\u00a0<br \/>\nEditor\u2019s note: Updates with comment from BlackFog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate workers willing to use shadow AI to enhance speed https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/corporate-workers-shadow-ai-speed\/810721\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-28 12:17:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/JSAnENrGXLzVBUp1xcJh4GKzi_jaOaK_KA5U7kg77y8\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0xOTc2MDk5NjY0LmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-182379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182381,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182379\/revisions\/182381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}