Hardware/Network
Shine a light on shadow IT to improve organizational resilience
Reported by helpnetsecurity.com
Shadow IT is one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. According to Gartner, by 2020, a third of all cybersecurity attacks experienced by enterprises will be from their shadow IT resources. This shadow IT infrastructure can be created, and added to, by any number of individuals and groups within an organization on all types of devices, from laptops to mobile phones, and is often done unwittingly by those with good intentions in an effort to improve their processes or efficiencies; they often don’t know the potential risks involved.