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Enterprise Security

Articles tagged with enterprise security address the unique cybersecurity challenges facing large organizations. Topics include network segmentation, zero-trust architecture, identity and access management, threat detection at scale, and building security operations centers to protect complex IT environments.

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Shadow IT Risks

Shadow IT Risks: The Hidden Threat Draining Your Budget

Your Employees Already Built a Second IT Department A marketing manager signs up for an AI writing tool using her corporate email. A sales rep stores client contracts in a personal Dropbox. An engineering team spins up an AWS instance without telling anyone. None of these people are malicious. Every

Carl B. Johnson Oct 27, 2020 7 min read
Shadow IT

What Is Shadow IT? The Hidden Risk Draining Your Budget

The Breach That Started With a Spreadsheet App In 2023, a midsize healthcare company discovered that an employee had been syncing patient records to an unauthorized cloud storage service for over eight months. The service had no encryption, no access controls, and no audit logging. By the time the security

Carl B. Johnson Oct 27, 2020 7 min read
Shadow IT

What Is Shadow IT? The Hidden Risk You Can't Ignore

Your Employees Already Built a Second IT Department In 2023, a Gartner survey found that 41% of employees acquired, modified, or created technology outside of IT's visibility. By now, that number has only grown. If you're asking what is shadow IT, the short answer is this:

Carl B. Johnson Sep 08, 2019 7 min read