Discovering Shadow AI in SaaS: Understanding the Risks and Solutions

As SaaS providers continue to integrate AI into their product offerings to stay competitive and relevant, a new challenge has emerged in the world of AI: shadow AI. Shadow AI refers to the unauthorized use of AI tools and copilots at organizations, often without the knowledge of IT or the Security team.

What is Shadow AI?

Shadow AI tools often embed themselves in approved business applications via AI assistants, copilots, and agents, making them even more difficult to discover than traditional shadow IT. When these tools are used without proper authorization, they often lack sufficient security controls, putting company data at risk.

Shadow AI Detection Challenges

Because shadow AI tools often blend in with approved business applications, they can be tricky to detect. Reco delivers a comprehensive solution to address these challenges, including:

• Posture Management and Compliance: Reco identifies misconfigurations that may put your data at risk, such as over-permissioned users, publicly exposed files, stale accounts, and weak authentication mechanisms. The ‘How to Fix’ feature provides instructions on how to clean up risks and continuously monitors for configuration changes that could lead to data exposure via SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM).
• Identities and Access Governance: Reco unifies identities across your SaaS applications, enabling centralized management of permissions and roles. By analyzing user permission levels and behaviors within your SaaS ecosystem, Reco provides visibility into critical exposure gaps that could lead to a breach.
• Threat Detection and Response: Reco delivers real-time alerts for unusual activities that may indicate malicious intent, such as impossible travel, unusual downloads, suspicious permission changes, or repeated failed login attempts. It integrates with your SIEM or SOAR so organizations can remediate SaaS risks efficiently within existing workflows.

Learn More About Reco

To learn more about Reco, you can watch the pre-recorded demo here or schedule a live demo on reco.ai.