In our ever-connected era where sophisticated cyberattaks ramp up, the pain of shadow IT is increasingly felt within organizations of all sizes across the world. Security and IT teams are invaded by acute headaches. Sensitive departments within organizations including engineering, design/R&D and finance are threatened.
Survey data from Tenable Network Security, Inc., revealed that most German and UK organizations
acknowledge shadow IT as a major security concern.
According to this survey data, 88 percent of IT decision makers in UK
and German organizations feel shadow IT makes them more vulnerable to
cyberattacks. Fifty-five percent of UK
respondents and 57 percent of German
respondents said that shadow IT has been introduced into their
organizations’ environments. Of the organizations currently affected by shadow
IT, 65 percent of German IT decision
makers said the use of unknown or shadow assets and applications has
directly led to a cyberattack within the last 12 months, compared to 45 percent
in the UK.
Henceforth, security solutions that provide the continuous
visibility required to stop shadow IT from becoming an attack vector are at the
core of stakes.