The Shadow Supply Chain: A 72.9% Gap In Your Vendor Inventory | UpGuard

The report "The Shadow Supply Chain" presents research showing that user-driven Shadow IT creates a significant vendor inventory gap—72.9% of application instances observed were unmonitored across analyzed organizations—resulting in a hidden supply chain that undermines traditional vendor risk management; it highlights behavioral drivers (convenience, productivity, tooling gaps), three high-risk usage categories, and recommends usage-based discovery and governance that follows user behavior.