Taking Back Cloud Control – Rein in Shadow IT by Providing SolutionsShawn Mills, Green House Data

Introduction

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• Wind power, energy efficiency, EPA Power Partner, B-Corporation

• 24/7 customer support – high touch

Shadow IT – A Growing Problem

Shadow IT Cloud applications and services adopted by individual employees, teams, and business units with no formal involvement from the organization’s IT department.

- Cloud Security Alliance

Filling a Suppressed Business Need

What are your users telling you?

ProcessTimeEffort

Expense

SecurityComplianceIntegration

Budget

ConvenientFast

InexpensiveInsecure

Security & Cost Concerns

77% of businesses aware of shadow cloud deployments…40% of these exposed confidential data

- Symantec 2013

?Public cloud environments are generally secure, but may not meet enterprise standards

The bigger problem? Employees and cloud sprawl

Maintaining Compliance

Lack of insight, visibility, controls

Discovering Shadow Cloud Use

Cloud discovery vendorsFirewall logs

Web proxy logs

Data loss prevention tools

Network monitoring tools

Ask your users directly

Work with other departments

During audits

Mitigate & Educate

Work with and train users to adopt policies rather than simply shutting down shadow IT deployments

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Offer Solutions

Shadow IT is not the enemy, but an opportunity todiscover businessneeds & empower employees viatechnology.

Questions?

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