Cloud Computing: Shadow IT – why companies are exposing your data, and what to do about it
December 24, 2013
Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Kent Christensen.
The race to cloud computing is exposing private customer information and sensitive corporate data on an unprecedented scale. The demand for quicker and cheaper application development is driving this trend. Companies are moving at breakneck speed to produce applications that offer a competitive edge and business results.
As CMOs crack the whip behind developers, app teams choose to buy cloud services without the knowledge or input of IT, the traditional guardians of data security. As a result, the public cloud has become the sandbox for development. And as customer information and sensitive corporate data is poured into this sandbox, IT is beginning to lose control of its company’s data assets…
As an IT adviser at Datalink, I have witnessed this rise of shadow IT. It comes from pressure to develop apps fast and a myth that the cloud is a Swiss Army knife suited for every application…
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