#ShadowIT
A temporary solution becomes production infrastructure.

Nobody documented it. Nobody owns it. Everyone depends on it.

Then somebody asks IT to support it.

What's the longest you've seen a "temporary" system survive?

#Technology #ShadowIT #Sysadmin
November 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Shadow IT often begins with a workaround, not bad intent. If the approved tools don't meet people's needs, unreviewed services become attractive.

coreblueprint.io/blog/shadow-...

#ShadowIT
October 30, 2026 at 7:01 PM
They bought a control that has to be signed. We deleted one that needs no signature.

Sweden blocked ChatGPT and Claude in the browser on staff computers from 26 October. The same models stayed, through a platform procured in July. What passed review was the contract, not the model. #ShadowIT
October 29, 2026 at 2:38 AM
They bought a control that has to be signed. We deleted one that needs no signature.

Sweden blocked ChatGPT and Claude in the browser on staff computers from 26 October. The same models stayed, through a platform procured in July. What passed review was the contract, not the model. #ShadowIT
October 29, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Vibe coding: 20 minutes to build the website.

Three months to understand, translate, secure, and maintain it.

We've seen this before with Shadow IT. AI just makes creating technical debt faster.

ithorrorstories.eu#rant07

#Technology #AI #ShadowIT
October 21, 2026 at 7:47 AM
570 - People get called shadow IT for living in Excel. Mike flips it around: they built the giant spreadsheet because it was the only tool they were handed, and the job still has to get done.

youtu.be/6w8E-5SwvoQ

#shadowit #excel #powerbi #datagovernance
October 20, 2026 at 10:11 PM
A laptop quietly became a production server in a warehouse.

Then it went to sleep.

Warehouse operations stopped. IT investigated. Windows power management had entered the incident report.

ithorrorstories.eu#ep14

#Technology #ShadowIT
October 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM
In this clip from the Tech Field Day Podcast, Ron Pagani Jr. compares today's rapid model adoption to the early days of "Shadow IT"—an unmeasured, unseen sprawl that organizations fail to budget for.

#TFDPodcast #AIFD9 #EnterpriseAI #ShadowIT #Shorts
October 19, 2026 at 4:16 PM
In this clip from the Tech Field Day Podcast, Ron Pagani Jr. compares today's rapid model adoption to the early days of "Shadow IT"—an unmeasured, unseen sprawl that organizations fail to budget for.

#TFDPodcast #AIFD9 #EnterpriseAI #ShadowIT #Shorts
October 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
ShadowIT always thrives
October 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
When employees download direct-from-web utilities and override OS security prompts to save time, they open the door to background data exfiltration.

#Cybersecurity #AppSecurity #ShadowIT #Infosec #AIGovernance
I don’t even need your passwords, mate!
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I don’t even need your passwords, mate!
A team needs its files cleaned today. Someone finds a polished utility, downloads it directly, and sees a familiar interface with one…
ion-oaie.medium.com
October 7, 2026 at 8:52 AM
British #workers #spend an estimated £958 million annually on #GenAI tools, with 63% using them and 31% doing so without employer knowledge. Users save 70 minutes weekly but fear #stigma, while half #lacktraining. #ShadowAI #ShadowIT…
tech news ᳇ eicker.news (@technews@eicker.news)
British #workers #spend an estimated £958 million annually on #GenAI tools, with 63% using them and 31% doing so without employer knowledge. Users save 70 minutes weekly but fear #stigma, while half #lacktraining. #ShadowAI #ShadowIT https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/about/press-room/british-workers-spend-one-billion-pounds-of-their-own-money-on-gen-ai-for-work.html?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews
eicker.news
October 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Services oubliés, API jamais décommissionnées, conteneurs restés actifs : pourquoi les audits en trouvent presque toujours, et ce que ça ouvre.
#Microservices #ShadowIT #Cybersecurity #AuditIT #PME #Suisse #consulting
Les microservices fantômes : l’angle mort qui menace les infrastructures modernes
Services oubliés, API jamais décommissionnées, conteneurs restés actifs : pourquoi les audits en trouvent presque toujours, et ce que ça ouvre.
newtechconsult.ch
September 25, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Banning artificial intelligence tools only drives their adoption underground. A functional policy begins with a guaranteed amnesty audit to map the tools your team already uses.

https://cxo.guru/ai-usage-policy-small-business-template

#CorporateLeadership #PolicyDevelopment #ShadowIT #AmnestyAudit
September 24, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Wazuh reduces Shadow IT visibility gaps by inventorying endpoints, supporting agentless monitoring, and correlating assets with vulnerabilities to expose unmanaged software and devices missed by network discovery. #Wazuh #ShadowIT #AssetMgmt
Reducing Shadow IT Visibility Gaps With Wazuh
Shadow IT creates visibility gaps when unmanaged endpoints, unapproved software, and devices outside standard monitoring escape notice, and network discovery alone often fails to reveal them. Wazuh closes this blind spot by collecting endpoint inventory, supporting agentless monitoring, and correlating asset data with vulnerabilities and policy to uncover unauthorized applications and monitoring gaps. #Wazuh
www.hendryadrian.com
September 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Enterprise compliance frameworks do not fit a forty-person firm using ad-hoc automations. You do not need a chief risk officer to document your data boundaries and baseline security.

https://cxo.guru/ai-governance-growing-companies

#RiskManagement #AIGovernance #ChatbotSecurity #ShadowIT
September 19, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Eager new hires want fast results⚡, but unvetted apps create hidden security blind spots🔒. Discover why shadow IT starts during hiring and how to fix it! 🛡️

Read more➡️https://www.abelpersonnel.com/go/latest-blog

#Cybersecurity #ShadowIT #WorkforceStrategy
September 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
New on ahr-ki-tekt Design Journal:

Your Data Is Somewhere Your Organization Did Not Choose

When business data ends up on personal infrastructure — cloud storage, external drives, or …

#ShadowIT #DataGovernance #ITRisk #SaaS

https://trust-lionel.com/posts/your-data-is-somewhere-you-did-not-choose
Your Data Is Somewhere Your Organization Did Not Choose | Lionel Mosley | ahr-ki-tekt
When business data ends up on personal infrastructure — cloud storage, external drives, or a personal AI subscription — the organization loses administrative control before it knows the decision was made. The ownership question that follows has no clean answer without legal counsel and a governance framework that predates the incident.
trust-lionel.com
September 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
41% of employees use IT tech outside IT oversight—creating security gaps.  FCX actively assist organizations putting the right tools and guardrails in place pertaining to AI use and around cyber security in general. 

#ShadowIT #CyberSecurity #AIforSMBs
September 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
559 - Ban AI at work and employees just buy their own hundred dollar subscription and hand company data to a random service. That gap is turning into shadow AI, the new shadow IT.

www.youtube.com/live/ODZbchQ...

#ai #shadowit #workplace #security #techtalk
September 6, 2026 at 12:46 AM