- Live Webinar
Uncovering Shadow AI Before
It Becomes Your Biggest Risk
Join this session if you're trying to embrace AI without creating new security blind spots.
August 13, 2026
8 am PDT
60 min.
Presented in English
Your employees have already adopted AI. The question is whether your organization knows where, how, and with which data.
While many companies are encouraging AI innovation, a new security challenge is emerging in parallel: Shadow AI. Employees are connecting AI tools faster than security teams can evaluate them, moving sensitive data into unmanaged applications, and creating blind spots that traditional security controls were never designed to see. Even organizations with mature AI strategies are discovering that sanctioned AI is only part of the story.
Join WatchGuard CISO Corey Nachreiner as he explores the real-world rise of Shadow AI, why it has become the next evolution of Shadow IT, and how attackers are increasingly exploiting cloud applications, identities, and unmanaged services instead of targeting traditional network perimeters.
You'll learn:
- Why visibility is the foundation of AI governance
- How users are bypassing IT today
- What practical steps security teams and MSPs can take to regain control without slowing innovation
- How WatchGuard Cloud Detection and Response (CloudDR) helps MSPs and organizations discover unmanaged cloud and AI applications, identify risky configurations and identity threats, and continuously monitor cloud environments at scale
If you're trying to embrace AI without creating new security blind spots, this session will show you how to see the risks you can't currently see.
Speakers
Corey Nachreiner
CSO
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Defending your business, data, and employees from cyberattacks in 2025 will become increasingly difficult. Not only are bad actors doing their best to crack your defenses, but their AI assistants will make it easier for them to launch highly targeted and advanced attacks.
During this session, the leaders of WatchGuard's Threat Lab, CSO Corey Nachreiner and Director of Security Operations Marc Laliberte, will review the new attacks they expect to see in the coming year, including:
- As multimodal AI systems gain the ability to integrate text, image, voice, and sophisticated coding, threat actors will leverage them to streamline and automate the entire pipeline of a cyber attack.
- Attackers will intensify their attempts to target little-known but widely used third-party open-source libraries and dependencies to avoid detection and execute malicious attacks.
- As threat actors will look to increasingly leverage AI to both find and build vulnerabilities, cybersecurity professionals will also take advantage of AI's capabilities to uncover and stymie their attempts.
- GenAI will open up new attack vectors for bad actors to profit when they combine it with other sophisticated tactics to earn the trust of organizations to perform what they believe is a legitimate business transaction.
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