Do you know if “shadow IT” cloud services present a problem to your company?

Grazed from Network World. Author: Linda Musthaler.

Does your organization have a shadow IT problem? Would you even know if you did? According to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), 72% of respondents to the 2014 Cloud Adoption Practices and Priorities survey know the scope of shadow IT in their computing environments.

CSA defines shadow IT as “technology spending and implementation that occurs outside the IT department, including cloud apps adopted by individual employees, teams, and business units.” Nearly half of the survey respondents (49%) say their primary concern about shadow IT is the security of corporate data in the cloud…

Their concerns are legitimate according to Skyhigh Networks Cloud Adoption and Risk Report – Q3 2014. Skyhigh combed through usage data from more than 13 million users at over 350 companies worldwide. The data represents all major vertical market segments and industries. The first thing that jumps out in this report is the average number of cloud services in use by a company: 831, up from "just" 738 the previous quarter…

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