Consider one bank. An engineer downloads a fine-tuned model from a public hub — a pickle checkpoint with a silent backdoor that executes code when the weights load. An employee finds the bank's internal AI tool slow, so they copy a customer statement into a public chatbot — corporate data has left for Shadow AI. The bank's agentic branch starts behaving anomalously, and it turns out there is nothing to stop it with. Per a 2026 Saviynt report, only 5% of security leaders are confident they could contain a compromised agent.
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