Shadow AI vs Enterprise AI Governance

Shadow AI Is the New Shadow IT. GRC Should Know Better This Time.

Right now, somewhere in your organization, an engineer is connecting a production workflow to an LLM they spun up last Tuesday. No security review. No risk assessment. No procurement process. Just an API key, a use case, and a deadline. Your GRC team will find out eventually. Probably not today. This is not a technology problem. It is not even a people problem. It is a governance problem, and the uncomfortable truth is that the GRC profession has seen this exact movie before. ...

May 21, 2026 · 6 min · Manju Mayachar
AI Virtual Employees Future

AI Employees Are Coming — Is Your Risk Program Ready?

The Future Isn’t Coming — It’s Already Here Several leading AI and research companies are actively exploring the deployment of AI-powered “employees” within enterprise environments. These aren’t your typical chatbots — they’re fully autonomous agents with persistent memory, role-based access, credentials, and the ability to perform tasks independently, often with system-level permissions. Now ask yourself: Is your risk program ready to onboard a non-human employee? Why This Matters for GRC Let’s cut through the hype and get real about what this means for Governance, Risk, and Compliance. ...

April 26, 2025 · 2 min · Manju Mayachar