The Burgeoning Problem with Shadow IT
Elizabeth Miller, MBA
Product Marketing authority, innervating leaders with GTM, positioning, and data-driven insights
Shadow IT has been a negative trend for years because it is so difficult to combat. Borne out of innovative necessity, Shadow IT, the provisioning of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and services outside of the IT department, leaves enterprises open to sensitive data loss and increases security risk.
Any one of the thousands of SaaS apps on the market today leaves a missing link in the enterprise security chain when it is provisioned without IT’s knowledge. 451 Research states that just under half of enterprises are using 50 SaaS applications or more. Gartner recently estimated that business users control 38% of technology purchases, a number that grows year over year as new SaaS applications and cloud services tantalize the business managers that are charging them to their corporate cards.
So how do you fight Shadow IT?
As part of a growing security segment introduced by Gartner in 2012, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) address SaaS security risk as organizations adopt a cloud-first approach to IT.
Monitoring and response is a critical component of effective cloud security. Even with best of breed technologies deployed, if no one is monitoring the alerts and managing triage and remediation, sensitive data can still be lost.
Masergy's Managed CASB represents the third in a line of Managed Detection and Response solutions released since early December 2017 to improve. Managed CASB secures SaaS applications, and when coupled with Managed Cloud Workload Protection and Security Monitoring for Office 365, covers every cloud security use case while helping Masergy fulfill the promise of a comprehensive approach to cloud security.
Masergy Managed CASB does more than most disparate security products by providing a solution that scales across all cloud applications while adding visionary deployment options, integrated identity and access management solutions, and comprehensive detection and response on top of that.
To learn more about how Masergy Managed CASB can help you embrace your cloud strategy, watch our on-demand webinar, Cloud Security Essentials: How to Tackle Cloud App Visibility and Data Security.