Tag

Shadow IT Management

posts

Shadow IT Risks

Shadow IT Risks: The Invisible Threat Draining Your Budget

A Marketing Team's Slack Alternative Nearly Took Down an Entire Hospital Network In 2023, a regional healthcare system discovered that its marketing department had been using an unapproved messaging platform for over 14 months. Nobody in IT knew. The platform stored patient-adjacent data with no encryption, no access

Carl B. Johnson Apr 16, 2026 5 min read
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