What is Shadow IT? Bitsight TRACE 2025 Report Highlights Growing Risk
Category:Supply Chain / Risk Management
Bitsight’s 2025 TRACE report reveals over 230 million exposed digital assets in the U.S., with 40% of global vulnerabilities tied to unmanaged third- and fourth-party systems. Shadow IT exposure remains a major risk driver for supply chain and compliance failures across sectors.
CORTEX Protocol Intelligence Assessment
Business Impact: Shadow IT magnifies attack surfaces through unmanaged assets introduced by vendors and partners. Technical Context: Bitsight observed rising CVE exposure in unsanctioned cloud and SaaS environments, often linked to outdated or orphaned services.
Strategic Intelligence Guidance
- Implement continuous discovery of third- and fourth-party assets.
- Enforce vendor inventory audits to map all hosted assets.
- Adopt automated exposure monitoring via external attack surface tools.
- Integrate Shadow IT governance under unified risk frameworks.
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Data Volume:230M exposures
Intelligence Source: What is Shadow IT? | Oct 26, 2025