8 Best Practices to Ensure Compliance When Adopting Cloud Apps and Services

Your employees and lines of business recognize the business enablement and collaboration benefits of cloud apps, and are increasingly demanding access not only to popular, secure cloud apps and services like Office 365, Salesforce and Box, but also less secure business and file sharing apps. If IT fails to respond by quickly providing a secure cloud adoption strategy, employees will adopt them without IT approval or oversight – a movement known as Shadow IT. Unfortunately, bypassing IT can be as simple as pulling out a departmental credit card and activating the service.