Shadow IT

How often do your employees go rogue to set up cloud services without approval from your IT team? Far more than you think.

Given the amount of corporate data stored in the cloud, public cloud apps have become a top Shadow IT risk for businesses. How have cloud storage apps become so popular in the enterprise?

Gartner predicts that within the next 4 years, one third of successful attacks on enterprises will be on Shadow IT resources. But we also know that clamping down on Shadow IT with draconian IT restrictions can often exacerbate the issue.

What happens when IT purchases are made with the explicit permission of IT but without specific oversight? With proper planning and guidelines, decentralized IT does not need to lead to true Shadow IT.

Absolute has introduced the capability to detect data at risk on endpoints associated with cloud storage applications such as Box, Dropbox, iCloud, and OneDrive.