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23 August 2019

50% of All Businesses Have Shadow IT – So How Are You Impacted?

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HelpNetSecurity.com reported that "Gartner's estimates that anywhere between 20-50 percent of enterprise app spending takes place without IT's knowledge or consent — aka, shadow IT."
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HelpNetSecurity.com reported that “Gartner’s estimates that anywhere between 20-50 percent of enterprise app spending takes place without IT’s knowledge or consent — aka, shadow IT.” The August 20, 2019 article entitled “With shadow IT running rampant, how can IT keep pace?” included these comments:

As the name implies, shadow IT happens when network teams don’t have visibility into every tool leveraging network capacity.

It’s more than just an issue of malware hiding in the shadows, its seemingly standard SaaS and web services that do not meet security and privacy compliance standards.

How much Shadow IT do you have? And related unknown malware?

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