Monthly, 45 minutes, online
Shadow AI is already here
Every department is already pasting work into a browser tab. How to find out what is in use, and what to do about it without banning it.
- When
- Wed, Nov 4, 2026, 12:00 to 12:45 PM ET
- Where
- Online
- Group
- Up to 50
- Format
- Topic webinars
The question isn't whether your people use AI. It's what they're pasting into it.
Shadow IT needed someone to install software, so it left traces. Shadow AI needs a browser tab. Support, engineering, legal, finance and HR can each be pasting something into a chat window today, with no record that it ever left the building.
Banning it doesn't work. People use AI because it saves them time, and a ban pushes it onto personal phones and personal accounts, where you can see even less.
This webinar is about the other option: find out what's in use, decide what data may go where, and make the approved route the easy one.
Who it's for
- Owners and executives who suspect staff already use AI and want to know what to do about it
- IT and security leads who've been asked to do something about ChatGPT
- Managers in legal, finance, HR or operations whose teams handle sensitive data
- Companies with no approved AI tool yet, which means whatever is in use is unofficial
What you'll be able to do
- Find out which AI tools your people already use, without turning it into an investigation
- Sort your data into three actions for AI: block it, remove it, or swap it for a placeholder
- Explain to your leadership why a ban pushes the problem out of sight
- Pick a first step for Monday: a usage check, a one-page rule or an approved tool
The 45 minutes
- 0:00What's already happening
A browser tab is all it takes. What that looks like in support, finance, legal and HR.
Teaching, 10 min
- 0:10Find it, sort it, route it
How to find out what's in use, decide which data may go where, and make the approved route the easy one.
Teaching, 20 min
- 0:30Questions
Live, from the room. Bring the situation at your company.
Questions, 13 min
- 0:43What next
The next session and the 20-minute call. Two minutes.
What next, 2 min
You leave with
- The slides
- The reading list behind the topic
- $25 credit toward any paid session within 60 days
A session that costs nothing is usually paid for some other way, often with your details. Your $25 makes you the customer, and it's credited in full toward any paid session you book within 60 days.
How it works online
- Live on video with cameras on. Your personal join link arrives by email right after you pay.
- The link opens Justin's video room 15 minutes before the start. Come a few minutes early to check your sound and camera.
- If you reload the page or get disconnected, re-open your original link: you will be let back in without waiting.
- Your link is personal to you. Don't forward it; transfer your seat instead.
- Join from a laptop or desktop so you can see the slides.
- Up to 50 people, so questions get answered.
Taught by Justin Donnaruma
Justin builds AI governance and security platforms, and has spent more than two decades in cybersecurity and emerging technology. He teaches every session himself, live, from Topsham, Maine.
The security and governance material comes from building these systems, not from reading about them.
Justin Donnaruma is CEO of Don't Panic Consulting, Inc., which sells these sessions, and Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer (CInO) of AOCyber, which builds AI governance and security products. Neither company's products are taught or sold in a session.
Questions
We haven't approved any AI tools. Is this for us?
Especially. If nothing is approved, whatever is in use is unofficial, and this is how to find out what that is.
Is this about a particular product?
No. It's vendor-neutral, and no product is taught or sold, including AOCyber's, where Justin is Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer.
Is this a sales pitch?
No. It's 45 minutes of teaching. The last two minutes point to the next session and a 20-minute call, and that's the whole pitch.
Will I get the slides?
Yes, after the session, with the reading list behind the topic.
Which AI tool do I need?
Whichever you already have: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot, on any plan. Sessions are vendor-neutral.
What if I can't make it?
This date is inside the 14-day window, so if you can't come you get credit for the full amount toward a later date. Your seat can go to a colleague any time before the session starts. Reply to your confirmation email with their name and email, and they get their own link.
What if not enough people register?
This date runs at 8 paid seats. We confirm on Wed, Oct 28; if it doesn't run you choose a refund or another date.
Is it recorded?
No. Sessions are not recorded. Ask the question you'd only ask in the room.
What does the $25 credit cover?
Every $25 intro or webinar comes with a code for $25 off any paid session or private booking of $100 or more, within 60 days.
Who am I paying?
Don't Panic Consulting, Inc. sells every session, invoices for it and takes the payment. Justin Donnaruma is CEO of Don't Panic Consulting, Inc., which sells these sessions, and Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer (CInO) of AOCyber, which builds AI governance and security products. Neither company's products are taught or sold in a session.
Something about the session doesn't work for me.
Email justin@donnaruma.us and say what you need. If the site gets in your way, Justin will help you register another way.
Find out what's already in use
45 minutes, live, with a third of the time for your questions. The $25 comes off any paid session you book within 60 days.
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