shadow IT

expression

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Stands for: Shadow IT

Technology and services used inside an organization without the knowledge or approval of central IT.

A team signs up for a SaaS tool on a credit card because the official process is slow, and now company data lives somewhere security never vetted. Shadow IT is a symptom as much as a risk: people route around IT when sanctioned paths are too painful.

Also known as: shadow IT

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