Shadow IT—unauthorized IT spending outside IT department control—creates challenges like uncontrolled costs, governance issues, and organizational risks, yet enables innovation when IT response is slow, fueled by cloud and SaaS proliferation. Enterprises balance its innovation benefits against threats to governance. Alkira software eliminates shadow IT threats by providing end-to-end network visibility into cloud deployments, micro-segmentation, advanced routing, zero-trust security, and firewalling of all application traffic without performance-draining backhauling, enabling real-time detection and proactive management.

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