Shadow IT Still A Problem

Shadow IT, or the "Dark Cloud," continues to be a challenge for businesses, especially as there is greater business adoption of cloud services and applications and users continue to adopt their own cloud offerings, Artes said. The challenge from a security perspective, he said, is that open authentication could provide a path from those cloud applications into the organization's critical information, especially as it creates an excessive amount of privileged users and users frequently reuse user names and passwords.