Shadow IT: Tiering the Unseen to Manage Vendor Risk | UpGuard

This blog post describes the growing problem of Shadow IT and SaaS sprawl, advocating a usage-based discovery approach and automated vendor tiering to detect, assess, and govern unvetted applications; it highlights how UpGuard’s User Risk and Vendor Risk products convert behavioral signals into managed vendor onboarding and continuous governance to reduce exposure to sensitive data leaks.