Who’s afraid of shadow IT?

One of the biggest disruptions in the IT world is the quantity and quality of SaaS tools. From email and storage, to phone systems and infrastructure, it has never been easier to use top of the range products and scale when your business does. As empowering as these tools are, there is a risk to adopting SaaS that might not be immediately apparent.

Shadow IT is any system or service used inside of a company without explicit approval and deployed using non-IT resources. It was born out of busine

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If users turn to ShadowIT, it’s because the IT department doesn’t provide them with the right tools to do their job. The workload on the users is always increasing and since their priority is to fulfill their tasks they will take shortcuts if the systems don’t support them. So it must be your top priority to support them, or your security policies and investments are worth nothing.

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Who’s afraid of shadow IT?