Blue Coat Elastica Cloud Threat Labs released the latest edition of the Shadow Data Report on cloud file storage. Researchers analyzed more than 15,000 enterprise cloud apps as well as 108 million enterprise documents stored and shared within these apps. The report declared that shadow data, which refers to unmanaged content employees store and share across cloud apps, poses a major threat It also found that 23 percent of this shadow content was being broadly shared among employees and external parties Even a sanctioned app such as Microsoft Office can be misused by an employee.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/news/cloud-file-storage-can-be-a-shadow-threat/