Stealth IT: Ninjas in the Workplace

STEALTH IT, NINJAS IN THE WORKPLACE presented by wikibon.org When available consumer technology outpaces available business IT protocol and employees take IT into their own hands. POTENTIAL NINJAS Employees under impossible deadlines Proactive employees New employees Gen Y employees STEALTH IT WEAPONS Linked in Google facebook iCloud OpenDrive amazon webservices™ egnyte HybridCloud rackspace. Dropbox HOSTING 69% use their smartphone for work 77% BYOD to work TRANSFORMATION INTO AN IT NINJA Business O Personal & Business O Personal GETS FRUSTRATED WITH: complicated security protocols . poor company mobile device inefficient, under sized servers - bureaucratic red tape "lazy' IT department . 'close minded' social networking policy EMPLOYEE SUITS UP ARMED WITH CUSTOMIZED CONSUMER TECH BYOD · cloud SaaS uses personal finances IT CONSUMERS 0% 20% 40% 80% 100% GOES STEALTH - COMPLETELY OFF COMPANY GRID not monitoring footprints, cyber-trail, flags IT dept unaware of potential leaks managers unaware of decisions made communications with clients are unaccounted for 4. 1/5th OFFICIALLY ROGUE - BYPASSED ALL IT PROTOCOLS of 223 IT Practitioners 25% sensitive company information on personal phones company data stored on non-company databases usernames and passwords aren't accounted for incompatible devices and services said of their IT budget was managed by a line of business or "Shadow" IT *** group." FINAL IT SHOWDOWN IT adapts to this reality and begins to meet demands of 1 employees to work in greater harmony with changing innovations OR IT continues to ignore the growing force of ninjas which will 2 spread the consumerization of IT idea to management, leading to a revolution against IT IT must support the business or be replaced / outsourced. Trends like BYOD and other self-service technologies cannot be ignored by IT staff. Wikibon Ninjas can be your allies for supporting this transformation of IT. www.wikibon.org