Fear not Get ready to face Shadow IT

"Get ready"?

For an article written in 2010...maybe

One written in late 2017? Shadow IT has been a major issue since the prevalent rise of easily-accessible cloud services, possibly the prominence of BYOD, and several other factors. It's been around for decades, but 20 years ago it was more like, "I got this buddy in IT that can help".

BYOD can (or can not) be a shadow IT issue - if done right, it's no issue at all (since usually all folks are doing with their own phones is checking work mail - proper security on the backend can mitigate most/all issues on the forend).

The worst aspect of shadow IT, though, is the simplicity with which people can just spin-up cloud servers/services and expense it on the corporate card: that is the realm that is most worrisome from an ITOps/SecOps point of view - since those external resources are being started (and likely never stopped - and almost certainly never patched/updated), the business has an incomplete view of the infrastructural landscape (often dangerously so).