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Shadow IT Risks

This tag focuses specifically on the dangers that shadow IT poses to organizations, including data leakage, compliance violations, expanded attack surfaces, and loss of visibility. Articles detail risk assessment methods and mitigation techniques to reduce exposure from unauthorized applications and services.

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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 Risks

Shadow IT Risks: The Hidden Threat Draining Your Budget

One Unapproved App Cost a Hospital Network $3 Million In 2023, a regional hospital system discovered that a department had been using an unapproved file-sharing tool to exchange patient records for over a year. The tool had no encryption, no access controls, and no audit trail. When an attacker exploited

Carl B. Johnson Sep 10, 2019 8 min read