{"id":6076,"date":"2016-02-18T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2016-01-14T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:38:17","slug":"shadow-it-its-real-companies-using-hundreds-of-unauthorized-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/shadow-it-its-real-companies-using-hundreds-of-unauthorized-cloud-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow IT: It’s Real — Companies Using Hundreds of Unauthorized Cloud Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

A study by IBM found that one-third of employees<\/a> at Fortune 1000 companies share corporate data using third-party apps. \u00a0Often they reuse corporate login credentials when setting up these unauthorized accounts.<\/p>\n

Is it really that bad? \u00a0It may be worse. \u00a0A recent study by Cisco quantifies the gap between what IT groups think its employees do and what they actually are doing.<\/p>\n

About one year ago, Cisco asked IT groups <\/a>how many cloud services that their companies were using<\/a>. \u00a0The average response: 91.<\/p>\n

As a verification, Cisco next looked at the web traffic of those same companies. \u00a0After subtracting out traffic to standard web sites, they found that companies actually were using on average 630 cloud services. \u00a0More recently they ran those same\u00a0tests again and found that the average had now jumped to 1220 web services per company. \u00a0The results were similar for almost all types of companies, regardless of the industry \u00a0— even manufacturing, oil and gas, financial services and healthcare showed high usages of cloud services.<\/p>\n

Bob Dimicco<\/a>, senior director, of advanced services at Cisco, said that<\/a> “when you step back, Shadow IT has been around for years. What\u2019s new or interesting is that the data here is not from a qualitative survey, it\u2019s the actual traffic to the cloud and the system has enough granularity to differentiate.”<\/p>\n

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A study by IBM found that one-third of employees at Fortune 1000 companies share corporate data using third-party apps. \u00a0Often they reuse corporate login credentials when setting up these unauthorized accounts. Is it really that bad? \u00a0It may be worse.…<\/span><\/p>\n

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