Casting Light On Shadow IT
Casting Light On Shadow IT
1 Pages© WorldLink Challenge: A large Financial Services client was interested in understanding how many of their IT applications were sanctioned and how many were considered “Shadow IT.” In addition, they also wanted to know how much of Shadow IT was anchored in the Cloud. Solution: WorldLink ‘s comprehensive solution included the following steps to ensure success: ? Conducted a Shadow IT assessment by installing an application that looked at their proxy server ? Uncovered over 700 Cloud applications being run in the Client environment over the two-week assessment ? This included roughly 10 applications that were compromising financial data into a public Cloud application ? Rationalized through the list of Cloud application and provided the Client with
