Infrastructure Doesn’t Lie: Using Infra Signals to Detect Shadow AI Built Applications

Balachandra Shanabhag April 17, 2026 AI app builders now enable production apps to ship without repositories, CI/CD, or security review, often by non-traditional developers outside established engineering workflows. These Shadow AI apps bypass AppSec pipelines and governance, creating a growing blind spot in enterprise environments. This talk demonstrates how DNS, TLS, and hosting signals can detect shadow AI apps that existing controls miss.