27 percent of apps connected to corporate environments are risky

As organizations move more of their data to the cloud the risk from shadow IT in the form of connected third-party apps grows greater. New research from CloudLock CyberLab, the security intelligence part of the CloudLock security platform, finds that 27 percent of third-party apps are classified as high risk. This means cyber criminals could gain programmatic access to corporate platforms and impersonate end users. With a 30x increase in apps from 5,500 to nearly 160,000 between 2014 and 2016, this represents a large number of potential backdoors through which hackers can infiltrate and steal sensitive corporate assets. The report… [Continue Reading]