Shadow IT and the Foundational Threat to Cybersecurity

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Companies can only monitor some of the pieces of software that their employees use. It’s inevitable, then, that those employees will start to kludge together their solutions through personal software or freeware from the Internet. 

This is such a problem that Splunk recently rated shadow IT as one of the top 50 threats to cybersecurity today.

This is, of course, a massive concern for security and compliance teams. Here, we’ll discuss shadow IT and its risks to your organization.

 

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VPNs and Cybersecurity

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It’s a fact of contemporary professional life that data, people, and secure systems are all remote, interconnected, and vulnerable to evolving security threats. The challenge is that it isn’t enough to lock everything down in areas like federal security, healthcare IT infrastructure, or other sensitive areas. The solution for the past few decades has been VPNs. 

A VPN isn’t new technology but has become the backbone of a modern work and data economy that thrives on accessibility and security. 

 

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Non-Human Access Vulnerabilities and Modern Cybersecurity

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The advent of non-human identities–encompassing service accounts, application IDs, machine identities, and more–has reshaped the cybersecurity landscape, introducing a new dimension of vulnerabilities and attack vectors. While helpful, these digital entities are an increasingly vulnerable spot where attackers focus resources. 

This article will cover this relatively new attack vector, how hackers leverage new technology to exploit these vectors, and what you can do to shore up your security. 

 

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