Cloud Security Alliance found out that shadow cloud service used by employees and unmanaged by IT can pose a major security problem for organizations. Growing use of web services, including cloud-hosted collaboration, file sharing, storage and social media services, that can expose to data leakages and data breaches company data leaks. The adoption of shadow cloud services is among the causes that can result in data exfiltration, malware infections and compliance problems. Skyhigh Networks conducted a survey that involved 200,000 employees based in the public sector based in U.S. and Canada.”]
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