How Strong Device Policies Can Help Solve Your Shadow IT Problem
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Surprisingly to no one, remote and hybrid work have changed the way we do business.
While we have greater flexibility, a bigger talent pool and often better productivity, remote and hybrid work have enhanced a blind spot that keeps a lot of IT leaders awake at night: Shadow IT.
Shadow IT is when employees use personal devices, unapproved apps, or other workarounds to get their job done outside the company's official systems. More often than not, workers bringing their own technology into the workplace is not malicious; it's someone just trying to be efficient. But even well-intentioned workarounds can lead to lost data, malware infections, compliance violations, and a headache for the IT team that has to clean it up.