25: Shadow IT: Problems & Solutions

Nothing frustrates and cripples IT more than individuals in varying departments going rogue. Joe from marketing thinks the company-approved internet is slow, so he sets up his own WiFi off network. Sara from finance uses non-approved cloud storage for personal info of employees, exposing the data. Then Larry uses his own home laptop because the work computer has too many restrictions. All this and more causes headache after headache for IT. The problems abound, causing security threats and bogging down the IT department when they could be focused on bigger tasks? Two IT pros, Adam Fowler and Billy York, join us today to share their frustrations, and solutions, on Shadow IT.