The New Shadow IT: LLMs in the Wild

A few months ago, a platform engineer at a mid-sized fintech wired OpenAI into a Terraform pipeline. He didn’t try to hide it. He just wanted to tag cloud resources automatically, and the LLM handled it better and faster than anything the team had built internally. But when security caught wind of it? Audit panic. Risk review. Retroactive approvals. Sound familiar?

LLMs now represent the new shadow IT. They’re slipping into environments faster than most orgs can track.

Shadow AI means developers integrate large language models (LLMs) or…