A recent survey showed that IT professionals are among the worst offenders of shadow IT. The only way to convince users to abandon shadow IT and adopt corporate sanctioned applications is to provide them with better services than what they can get for free on the open web. IT should focus security efforts on protecting the data it cant afford to lose, rather than some arbitrary fear of data living in the cloud. Less than 5% of corporate data is sensitive and some security risks, such as data loss, remain equally if not less likely to happen in enterprise SaaS applications.”]
Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/looking-shadow-eye-realizing-youre-staring-reflection/