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Shadow AI Agents
Shadow AI agents are unsanctioned autonomous workflows connecting to production data or tools without central governance. Ingress and sidecar enforcement provide visibility and policy at the agent boundary.
Shadow AI agents are unsanctioned autonomous workflows — personal API keys in IDE agents, unapproved MCP servers, or department-built automations — operating without central security review.
Enterprise risk
Shadow agents bypass SSO, DLP, and audit pipelines. Ingress and sidecar enforcement provide a control point even when agents are not centrally provisioned.