Shadow AI was only the warning - autonomous agents turn data leakage into boardroom liability

Shadow AI was only the warning - autonomous agents turn data leakage into boardroom liability

Only two years ago, Shadow AI simply meant an employee pasting a spreadsheet into an unapproved chatbot to try to simplify a task and get things done faster. That was concerning enough. Today, autonomous AI agents have raised the stakes because they can retrieve data, transform it, and trigger actions across connected systems with little human intervention. Veeam’s EMEA research puts numbers to the problem. Of 1,000 IT, data, and security decisi…