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Shadow IT, IaaS & the Security Imperative

January 22, 2019

Organizations must strengthen their security posture in cloud environments. That means considering five critical elements about their infrastructure, especially when it operates as an IaaS.

Shadow IT, the use of technology outside the IT purview, is becoming a tacitly approved aspect of most modern enterprises. Yet, with the vast adoption of software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) approaches, shadow IT presents increased security challenges that can create major risk. To further complicate things, because organizations aren’t centrally controlling these solutions and tools, their vulnerabilities often go undetected for far too long. If individuals and internal teams continue to introduce outside tools and solutions into their environments, enterprises will have to adopt a smart path to ensure they operate securely.

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