More than two-thirds (67 per cent) of organizations admit that unauthorized #cloud applications are being implemented without IT’s knowledge or involvement, and correspondingly pose a #security risk to the #business. This is according to a snapshot poll by Centrify at Cloud Expo Europe last week in London.
As shadow IT becomes a bigger challenge for businesses – with employees downloading applications without going through a formal IT procurement process – around 40 per cent of respondents said that between 10-20 per cent of cloud services are now being purchased outside of IT.
