Imagine your boss reads about Shadow IT before you have a chance to take control of the situation. It's not ALL bad news. You can refer her to this article, that talks about the upside of Shadow IT in your organization. The big plus is that "Employees are more productive when allowed to use preferred technologies."
https://www.entrustdatacard.com/pages/shadow-it It is still necessary to take control because the video still claims that Shadow IT will be responsible for 1 in 3 data breaches, amounting to billions of dollars of losses for companies. Good luck !
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The identification of Shadow IT is not new. Some writers believe it can constitute 30 to 40 percent of the total IT spend of an organization. https://www.quickbase.com/blog/5-shadow-it-statistics-to-make-you-reconsider-your-life points out that unmanaged use of IT renders the entire organization vulnerable to attack from external groups as well as random leakage of internal corporate data to the outside world. This is particularly likely with the proliferation of cloud services purchased by employees and paid for by a manager's credit card. Boom! Who's doing the security audit on that? Probably nobody.
Suggestion: have Accounting or Purchasing produce a list of credit card or purchase orders paying Amazon, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, Box, MEGA, or any service provider selling cloud based services, and verify that the use of such services are actually approved by IT and security teams. That is one piece of low hanging fruit that should be grabbed right now. The only reason you might delay this discovery is because you don't want to know how bad things are. Good luck! |
AuthorDjilpmh Pi has been tracking the spread of Shadow IT for some time. This collection lists some of the most egregious examples. He Archives
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