Shadow IT 'Menace' Creates Channel Opportunities
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Password Management: A Major Compliance Headache
In the age of shadow IT, no one is in charge of passwords: 89% of former employees retained access to passwords. -
File-Sharing Services Are the Worst Compliance Issue
People think of these services as their own personal cloud; 88% retained access to file-sharing services they used in their old jobs. -
Taking Work Home From the Office Forever
No one ever remembers to actually delete anything: 68% stored work files in a personal storage cloud. -
Top Sites Where Former Employees Retain Access to Corporate Data
Every cloud service is a potential source of compliance risk. Dropbox and Google top the list, at 44% and 40%, respectively. -
Financial and Customer Data at Risk
The issue is hardly limited to file-sharing services; 24% of users still have access to a PayPal account, 21% have access to Facebook and 18% have access to LinkedIn. -
Sensitive Corporate Data at Risk
The amount of sensitive corporate data at risk is substantial. Almost half (45%) admitted to retaining access to sensitive corporate data. -
Former Employees Regularly Access Corporate Data
No one is really sure who is actually logging into those cloud services: 49% logged into an account after leaving the company. -
HR Professionals Need Education
Passwords are more important than company ID cards. A full 60% were not asked for cloud log-ins when exiting their companies. -
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Shadow IT services in the cloud came about largely because organizations failed to provide an efficient way to enable employees to share files. Add in a host of cloud computing services—from PayPal to social media sites, such as Facebook and LinkedIn—and it's hard to see how any organization these days could pass a compliance audit. A new survey of 379 knowledge workers conducted by Osterman Research on behalf of Intermedia, a managed cloud application service provider, suggests rogue access issues are rampant. Nearly nine in 10 said they retained access to passwords for any number of cloud services after they left their companies. The challenges stemming from the "ex-employee menace" that the study describes create the opportunity for the channel to provide managed cloud services that offer a structured approach to managing files and access to external services. With more firms finding how much of their data is at risk, it's becoming easier for solution providers in the channel to propose alternatives for managing documents and files that increase security without compromising productivity.
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