The Official Inventory Is Not the Real System | Shadow AI Is the Symptom - Identity Is the Control Point.

Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise · May 4, 2026 · 33m

Most companies think they have an AI governance problem.

In practice, they have an identity problem.

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This episode breaks down why shadow AI and SaaS sprawl are only the visible symptom.

The real bottleneck is the missing access graph linking identities, tools, data scope, and spend.

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If you cannot answer who is using what, what it touches, what it costs, and how access gets removed, you are not governing AI.

You are discovering it late.

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