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Shadow IT Risks: The Threats Hiding in Your Network

In 2023, a midsize healthcare company discovered that an employee had been syncing patient records to a personal Dropbox account for over two years. No malicious intent — just convenience. The result was a HIPAA violation, a six-figure settlement, and a brutal lesson in shadow IT risks that the organization'

Carl B. Johnson May 04, 2026 5 min read
Shadow IT Risks

Shadow IT Risks: The Threats Hiding in Your Network

Your Employees Are Building a Second Network — And You Can't See It In March 2021, a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server sent security teams scrambling. But here's what didn't make the headlines: many organizations discovered Exchange instances they didn't even know existed.

Carl B. Johnson Dec 23, 2021 8 min read