Shadow IT Discovery Through Identity Analytics: Making the Invisible Visible

Shadow IT Discovery Through Identity Analytics: Making the Invisible Visible TL;DR Here’s a fun number: 1,158. That’s how many cloud applications the average enterprise uses. Wanna guess how many IT actually sanctioned? About 35. Do the math—that’s 97% of your cloud services operating completely outside your visibility. 1,158 apps. You’ve sanctioned maybe 30. The rest? Shadow IT. And here’s the thing—you can’t see them with traditional security tools. Your firewall?...

December 15, 2025 · 32 min · Jay Klinkowsky

IAM in the Cloud & SaaS Era: Tackling Shadow IT, API Sprawl, and Access Chaos

#IAM in the Cloud & SaaS Era: Tackling Shadow IT, API Sprawl, and Access Chaos TL;DR As enterprises shift further into cloud and SaaS ecosystems, identity and access management (IAM) becomes a tangled web of apps, permissions, and overlooked risks. This post outlines the top threats—like Shadow IT and API sprawl—and offers strategies to maintain control. The Identity Challenge in a Cloud-First World Modern enterprises are no longer running a single stack—they’re running hundreds....

August 20, 2025 · 4 min · Jay Klinkowsky