Shadow IT has always been considered a huge risk to an enterprise’s cyber-security efforts, but now we have a new survey which supports the claim and shows the scope of the problem. The report, recently released by Tenable Network Security, says that both German and UK-based companies acknowledged shadow IT as a problem, but the former reported more cyber-attacks. That being said, 88 percent of IT decision makers in UK and German companies believe shadow IT makes them more vulnerable, with 65 percent of Germany-based respondents saying the use of shadow IT directly lead to a cyber-attack in the past… [Continue Reading]