--- title: Pulling the Covers off Shadow IT description: Did you know, on average, that IT knows about 10% of the cloud applications running on their network? image: https://www.birdrockusa.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/ShawdowIT-pic.jpg --- [![Bird Rock Systems Logo](https://www.birdrockusa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/br-logo.png?width=300&height=38&name=br-logo.png "Bird Rock Systems Logo")](https://www.birdrockusa.com/) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. [![Bird Rock Systems Logo](https://www.birdrockusa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Bird%20Rock%20logo%20-%20Horizontal%20Transparent-1.png?width=400&height=68&name=Bird%20Rock%20logo%20-%20Horizontal%20Transparent-1.png "Bird Rock Systems Logo")](https://www.birdrockusa.com) # The Tech Break ### Technology Assessment Let Bird Rock Systems' team of experts help you discover the possibilities for your business and IT team with an assessment. 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Shadow IT, also known as the applications that you have no knowledge and/or control over, is becoming a growing concern. Why? Without ITs knowledge of applications, how they are being used, who is using them, and what company data is being traversed across these apps opens up major internal and external security threats for your company. Many times Shadow IT is not the only concern with your cloud applications. Companies, especially those in healthcare and finance, have compliance requirements that enforce IT to know everything about their cloud environment. For instance, you may have experienced an audit that asked for a report on all the applications running in the cloud. You either realized you had no clue or you already use the one solution available. Regardless, we have seen our customers speak confidently about their knowledge of their cloud applications and be rudely awakened when they did not know about an extra 300 apps that were moving company sensitive data. It is way too easy for your company’s employees to welcome new applications to your network without your knowledge and approval. There are a couple reasons why this is such a big threat to your companies data. The avenues for a hack rise due to sheer numbers and the lack of knowledge of the applications themselves and data traversing those applications offers no security protocol. Second, your users do not understand security. In a company with hundreds to thousands of users it is close to impossible to train each and every one of them on the importance of security in their day-to-day work. The need to gain control and visibility of your cloud applications seems impossible but thankfully one company has stepped up to the plate! [Netskope](http://www.netskope.com) is the only Cloud Security Broker that gives IT the ability to find, understand, and secure sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud apps. With Netskope, organizations can direct usage, protect sensitive data, and ensure compliance in real-time, on any device, including native apps on mobile devices and whether on-premises or remote. This is an industry leading reactive and DLP solution. Know your risks when they happen and proactively control risks from happening all together. Protect and understand your users and data with Cloud forensic analysis and anomaly detection. Quarantine sensitive content and place it on legal hold if need be. Finally, to add a cherry on top, user coaching that alerts, warns, re-directs, and teaches your employees about behavior that may be risky or against company policy. Not only are you controlling your data with complete visibility, you are making your users a part of the solution and not the problem. 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