Shadow IT vs Shadow AI: Why AI is the bigger threat
Employees are using AI tools you didn't approve, on accounts you can't monitor, with data you can't recover. Here's what the risk actually looks like and what governance needs to address.


CEO · Enterprise password security
Under Alex's leadership, Passwork has been driven by a straightforward premise: enterprise-grade security should not require enterprise-grade complexity. Over the years, the company has grown from a startup into a trusted European password management platform serving thousands of organizations across the EU, the US, and beyond — fully bootstrapped, founder-owned, and independent.
He writes about the practical side of information security: how organizations actually manage credentials under real-world constraints, where compliance frameworks meet daily operations, and why most security tools fail before they're ever deployed. His perspective is shaped by years of building a product that security teams choose to use.
Employees are using AI tools you didn't approve, on accounts you can't monitor, with data you can't recover. Here's what the risk actually looks like and what governance needs to address.

Bulgaria's NIS2 grace period ended on 1 June 2026 — board members now face full personal fines, not the discounted 50% rate that applied through May. Luxembourg's NIS2 Directive transposition law entered into force on 10 May 2026, leaving four member states still without implementing legislation....

VaultJacking targets the Google Password Manager PIN to unlock your entire vault. One captured PIN exposes every saved password and passkey. Learn how the attack works, who's at risk, and what to do if you've been phished.

NIS2 is mandatory. Regulators demand proof: who accessed what, when, and why. A password manager with RBAC, MFA, and immutable audit trails is the technical foundation for compliance. Benefit: €210k annual IT savings plus protection from €10 million fines.

Stolen credentials dominate breaches in 2026. NIS2 Article 21 mandates 10 security measures to eliminate credential-based attack vectors. This guide covers technical requirements, the 24-hour incident reporting obligation, ENISA's MFA tiers, and a 5-phase roadmap to audit-ready compliance.

Every IT admin who runs KeePass for a team tells the same story. It starts with one shared .kdbx file on a network drive. Then someone can't open it because a colleague has it locked. Then a junior sysadmin saves over a change someone else made an hour ago. Then an employee leaves, and nobody's...

Passwork has been named a Top Performer Spring 2026 by SourceForge, ranking in the top 10% of 100,000+ solutions. The badge is based entirely on verified reviews — 4.8 stars overall, with a perfect 5.0 for support.

Hardcoded secrets are credentials written directly into code instead of injected at runtime. They survive in Git history, CI/CD logs, and forks long after the "fix" commit. This guide covers how they spread, how to detect them, and how to eliminate them.

Secret rotation fails when it's treated as a scheduled task rather than a lifecycle. This guide covers all seven stages — from creation and ownership to safe rotation, emergency revocation, and audit evidence.

28.65 million secrets leaked on public GitHub in 2025. AI is accelerating the problem. Internal repos are 6× more exposed than public ones. And 64% of secrets from 2022 are still valid today. Here is what the data means for your security posture.
