"And, again to echo Mitch, there could be major repercussions for businesses in terms of governance, risk-management, DR, and security."
That's really true. But I was thinking that most businesses should have realized these problems you highlighted and as a result have taken appropiate steps to minimize employees's erratcic use of the network. That's why an effective corporate policy governing the use of the network is very important first step towards steming this tide of "unwanted' apps ruuning through the network.
If that's the case,then it's really a huge challenge forIT managers to effectively control these networks. So does corporate policy allows users to unilaterally implement and support apps without any knowlegde to the IT managing these networks? I may be wrong but I don't think users may have the same levelof expertise as IT toprovide support for these apps. Hencve, these apps may be weak points to exploit the network.
I agree with Mitch: I don't think IT is supporting these cloud apps. Users are supporting themselves, just as they do at home. Maybe they're choosing to use these apps primarily because they already know, like, and understand them vs., perhaps, an enterprise app that does a similar job. Or maybe it's because they haven't found a corporate app that does the job as well or as easily as the software they use at home or for their own business. Whatever the reason, they may be shutting-out IT. And, again to echo Mitch, there could be major repercussions for businesses in terms of governance, risk-management, DR, and security.
Google Docs and Dropbox are particularly popular in the enterprise, according to people I talk to. Enterprise IT managers need to stay on top of which "personal cloud" apps employees are using, if they want to truly be custodians of the "information" in "information technology."
These apps present many regulatory challenges, with all that business data floating around in the cloud.
"This, however, assumes that IT managers know which applications employees are using. That is not necessarily the case, according to Roberts. "IT managers are unaware of two-thirds of the applications being used on their network," he said. "In 2013, I think it will grow even more and be self-evident."
I am very intrigue at this statistics. If IT managers don't know that much of the aplications being used on their network, then my question is how are these applications been supported?
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