Shadow IT

Without a comprehensive view of SaaS applications throughout your organization, shadow IT can run unchecked and leave your organization open to security risk, application sprawl and wasted spend. Flexera delivers the full visibility you need into the entirety of SaaS applications – regardless of whether they’re licensed, approved or authorized - so you can identify and take action on shadow IT, mitigating the risk of unknown SaaS resources.

As employees come and go or their roles change, shadow IT can present itself as newly insecure SaaS. Flexera can help you place governance around usage rights for current employees, disable access automatically for anyone who has left the organization, and protect against unauthorized access to your proprietary data.

Individuals and business units can circumvent traditional procurement practices to use free and paid SaaS applications that your IT security team has not vetted. This opens the door to security risks and unexpected costs. Multiple highly effective discovery methods, including browser extensions, API connectors and single sign-on (SSO) help find all these additional applications, enabling you to mitigate this risk and act on Shadow IT. As the software market changes rapidly, true comprehensive discovery is necessary to secure your SaaS applications from Shadow IT risk. 

Full discovery is necessary to uncover Shadow IT. Reliable and comprehensive discovery methods are essential to uncovering SaaS usage that has bypassed security vetting throughout your organization. Flexera understands that effectively uncovering Shadow IT requires full visibility through multiple discovery methods to gain a comprehensive view of SaaS usage, both sanctioned and unsanctioned to mitigate security risk and wasted spend. Flexera combines multiple discovery methods to give you full visibility into which tools business units use, who is using them and what data the tools can access.