Shadow It

Let’s be honest, the minute you sign up to a new site on the internet, it’s as if you entrusted a stranger with your bag, house keys, IDs, private pictures, … and accompanied by a contract signed so that the stranger in question won’t be accountable if anything would happen…

As cyber risk increases, business leaders are seeking greater visibility and understanding of their organizations’ security programs. Their goal is to understand where cyber security risks are, where to invest resources, and how these investments are paying off. Yet the data generated by security platforms and reporting tools is sometimes…

Introduction This story is part of a series (part 1 here). As a big Gomer Goof fan, I would like to share my latest insight into IT-based on one of his stories. Let's start with the story: What is going on here? Gomer has been very creative in concocting a recipe…

Almost all organizations are reporting spiraling out costs as their major pain points using cloud computing. 35% of organizations report it as their biggest pain point for now. All the major public clouds come with their own internal tools for reporting and monitoring costs and there is a growing ecosystem…

Shadow-IT — Deployed information technology systems or services by employees or non-IT departments, to work around the shortcomings of the central information systems; actual or perceived. Example: The marketing team decides to use Third-party Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications outside the control of their IT department Scamicry — A “legitimate” interface or…

Phishing attacks need no introduction, so we will skip the part where we discuss how relevant and scary they are. They often come in pair with stolen credentials, which is the aim of a large portion of phishing attacks in the first place. And stolen credentials lead to breaches that…

Things To Know About Shadow IT Solutions It is usually the work of IT teams to build and implement software systems that their companies could utilize for internal operations. With the increasing growth of cloud-based services, many more products are available today for these organizations to buy, making their jobs simpler, quicker, and more comfortable. The IT…

Overcoming Shadow IT In The Enterprises With Shadow IT Solution Cloud is omnipresent as corporate houses in all industry verticals adopt cloud-based services to enhance work productivity and expedite business growth by imparting work flexibility to employees. This BYOD era has changed the working styles of people, as they are free to use their devices and thus use organizational data…

Why Shadow IT Impacts Mars Organizational Security? IT teams need to reposition them. Company employees are not subverting these departments entirely out of malice, but these users only wish to want to meet their organizational work productivity goals. Instead of being barriers for company users, IT Infrastructure needs to create its value, which is somehow missing. It…