Shadow IT: Mitigating the Threat Lurking in Your Own Office

Shadow IT has quietly become one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity risks facing modern organizations. As employees adopt unauthorized SaaS tools, AI applications, devices, and cloud services, businesses lose visibility, expand their attack surface, and incur unnecessary costs and compliance exposure. In this whitepaper, Guardare breaks down what shadow IT is, why it has become “the new normal,” and how it directly contributes to data breaches, licensing waste, and governance failures. You’ll also learn how to build an effective shadow IT management framework, implement discovery and risk scoring, and take a balanced, people-first approach to reducing risk before shadow IT turns into a million-dollar problem.