For most organizations, over 95% of apps fall into the shadow IT area where business units adopt them without IT knowledge or administration rights. Considering the average organization utilizes over 1,200 apps today, you likely have well over a thousand apps that are unmanaged with no IT administration rights. For example, based on Netskope Research Labs’ analyses, an HR department will use approximately 130 apps on average working with personal identity information on a daily basis.
If your strategy to solve the application visibility and monitoring issue is with your secure web gateway (SWG) or next generation firewall (NGFW), you are