“Shadow IT” is used to describe IT solutions and systems created and applied inside companies without their authorization. The phenomenon usually begins with an enterprise department or team getting frustrated with IT department’s perceived inability to deliver what they think they need. The challenge for corporate IT, therefore, is to find and secure such applications. IT is responsible for technology within the organization, even that which it doesn’t know about, writes John Defterios. He says it is just as important to control outbound traffic as it is to control the traffic coming in.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2975024/the-security-and-risk-management-of-shadow-it.html