Shadow IT

Updated 31 Jul 2026

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  employees or departments building and using their own infrastructure, working around the internal IT organization
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characteristics
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  limited resources (company budget); medium sophistication, may lack formal IT training; unencumbered by IT roadblocks, and may innovate faster as a result — but without IT's usual security oversight
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related
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  Threat Actor
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cards
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  What is Shadow IT?
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    Employees/departments building their own inrastructure outside official IT, working around (not through) IT's oversgight

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