Bringing Your Agency's IT Out of the Shadows
Four in five federal end users are going outside their IT department for cloud services that can risk their security and skew their budgets. Why are they doing it, and what can your agency do to bring them back from the dark side?
Facing mounting pressure to achieve mission objectives despite poorly-performing network infrastructure, surprising numbers of federal employees are turning to cloud-based "shadow IT" applications. While it may seem harmless, shadow IT puts federal agencies at greater risk of unauthorized access to secure data while limiting their ability to accurately budget IT resources.
Download this GBC Issue Brief to learn:
- Why four in five federal end-users are turning to shadow IT
- How much shadow IT is costing your agency
- What software-defined networking (SDN) can do to keep your employees within the bounds of federal IT and mitigate risk