Shadow IT and the Foundational Threat to Cybersecurity

Lazarus Alliance cybersecurity team conducting a shadow IT audit to identify unauthorized systems.

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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What Are the Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends Entering 2022?

Proactive cybersecurity audit certification by Lazarus Alliance  

It’s a new year, and with a new year come new security challenges and new takes on old favorites. While phishing, social engineering, and state-sponsored attacks are still significant issues, new machine learning innovations support better security efforts. But emerging attack vectors like IoT objects are shifting the cybersecurity battleground into new and unknown territory. 

Here are some of the top trends we see down the road in 2022. 

 

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