The Shadow Knows
Last week at CompTIA’s Annual Member Meeting (AMM), Datto CEO Austin McChord discussed a recent audit of his internal applications. When the results of the survey came in, his team discovered that Datto was using over 100 SaaS applications company-wide, a tiny fraction of which was actually authorized by the IT department. McChord says the cost of all of the apps added up to millions of dollars a year. That kind of expense is alarming to enterprises that are fighting a losing battle to control shadow IT. When you add on the security implications, the potential for financial loss grows exponentially. Analyst firm Gartner says that by 2020, a third of successful cyberattacks on enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources.
Should you be concerned? Uh-huh.
Last week at CompTIA’s Annual Member Meeting (AMM), Datto CEO Austin McChord discussed a recent audit of his internal applications. When the results of the survey came in, his team discovered that Datto was using over 100 SaaS applications company-wide, a tiny fraction of which was actually authorized by the IT department. McChord says the cost of all of the apps added up to millions of dollars a year. That kind of expense is alarming to enterprises that are fighting a losing battle to control shadow IT. When you add on the security implications, the potential for financial loss grows exponentially. Analyst firm Gartner says that by 2020, a third of successful cyberattacks on enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources.
Should you be concerned? Uh-huh.
