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importantSYS.SOURCE: The Hacker News2026-08-24T17:00:00+05:30

5% of Enterprise AI Users Pose Disproportionate Security Risks Due to Shadow AI Adoption

The top 5% of enterprise AI users create disproportionate security risks through unvetted tools and shadow AI adoption, with 12x higher interaction rates and vulnerabilities in personal AI accounts and browser extensions.

Big security risks come in small packages. While enterprise security teams focus on policing the proliferation of employees using ChatGPT and Claude for quick drafting tasks, a more urgent threat is posed by a handful of AI super-adopters who are quietly hardcoding unvetted tools into critical business operations.

According to new research published by Akamai, the top 5% of enterprise power

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