Shadow IT

This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Way back in 2013/14, Cloud Access Security Brokers(CASBs) were first deployed to identify Shadow IT, or unsanctioned cloud applications. At the time, the prevailing mindset amongst security professionals was that cloud was bad, and discovering Shadow IT was viewed as the first step towards stopping the spread of […]

This post was originally published here by Paul Sullivan. Shadow IT refers to the unsanctioned applications used by employees who disregard IT’s app approval processes. By definition, this means that IT departments lack complete visibility into what is being used to store and process data. This invites risks like data exfiltration from malicious insiders, upload of sensitive data to […]