<p>BYOD has taken over the enterprise, whether the enterprise likes it or not. But it's not just BYOD. Employees are turning to consumer versions of file sharing cloud solutions like DropBox, Google Drive, SkyDrive (not to be confused with SkyDrive Pro) and others to access their documents no matter where they are. IT needs to resolve this problem, and it won't be done by banning the use of these devices and apps. There's a smarter way.</p><p>Harmon.ie did a study that produced some eye opening findings. Forty one percent of workers surveyed used an unsanctioned cloud-based file sharing application to share documents despite the fact that 87 percent of them knew it was against company policy. Maybe of greater concern is that 38 percent said a document they shared "reached or may have reached an unintended recipient."</p><p>The fact is, these easy to use consumer tools help employees get their work done, and that's going to make them popular. Unfortunately, this means there's a lot of "shadow IT" happening today the use of devices or applications not sanctioned by the IT department. And that means the potential risks to information security grow enormously.</p><p>But there's a lot of opportunity buried inside this concern of shadow IT, you just have to sit back and think about what it means in the greater scheme of enterprise applications and managing information.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/mobile-enterprise/what-consumerization-of-it-means-for-sharepoint-online-skydrive-pro-023084.php">Keep reading...</a></p>