Data-Centric Security for Shadow AI: Protect Sensitive Data Wherever It Goes
OpenText, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
OpenText concludes its shadow AI series by arguing for data-centric security that protects sensitive data even in unapproved AI tools.
OpenText says shadow AI reaches data organizations may not know exists or know is sensitive.
After discovering sensitive data and clearing out redundant, obsolete and trivial data, the next step is protecting the data that remains.
Customer records, payment data and health information keep multiplying as data is copied into analytics platforms, shared with partners and pulled into AI workflows.
In this final post of its shadow AI series, OpenText explains how data-centric security protects that data even when copies land in unapproved AI tools.