What is Shadow IT and why is it so risky?

Shadow IT refers to the practice of users deploying unauthorized technology resources in order to circumvent their IT department. Users may resort to using shadow IT practices when they feel that existing IT policies are too restrictive or get in the way of them being able to do their jobs...

Generation Y Won't Listen To IT

The latest generation of desk-jockey’s admitted in a recent CISCO study that they frequently ignore and/or circumvent the information technology IT policies of their employers, heightening corporate risk. The CISCO Connected World Technology Report surveyed some 2,800 college students and young...

Security Risk: The Device Formerly Known as Your Hard Drive

Guest editorial by Paul Roberts In a weird kind of synchronicity, two stories recently have raised the specter of discarded not merely misplaced hard drives as the source of considerable consternation and legal wrangling. In the most serious incident, the Inspector General of the National Archive...