GoKawiilYour workforce is building agents in Salesforce Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Cursor, Zapier, Retool, and a dozen other tools, often without visibility or approval from IT or security.
For IT and security teams, the decision of whether or not agents should be used has already been made by the business, one shadow agent at a time. The challenge now is keeping up. New agents can be created in minutes, connected to sensitive systems in a click, and changed daily.
The job is to maintain visibility and control (who built it, what it can access, what it can do) while enabling the workforce to keep experimenting, automating, and moving fast.
That's exactly what Nudge Security does.
Why shadow AI agents are riskier than shadow AI apps
AI chatbots are a known problem by now. Shadow AI agents are a different, and arguably bigger, one. An agent holds persistent permissions. It connects to your corporate apps and data. It takes action on its own, without waiting for someone to hit send.
When an unmanaged agent goes wrong, the result isn't a bad response in a chat window. It's a system that got touched.
The numbers back this up:
48% of cybersecurity professionals rank agentic AI as the most dangerous attack vector of 2026 (Dark Reading).
80% of organizations say they've already encountered agentic AI risks (SailPoint).
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