During routine maintenance you find a wireless router connected to the network that wasn’t installed by the IT department. After doing some investigation, you discover that the router was installed by an employee so he could use his laptop wirelessly around his office. This is what type of threat actor?
Shadow IT is a reference to IT hardware/software that is deployed on a network that is not authorized by those with the power to do so and usually not installed by the IT department. This differs from insider threat in that shadow IT is installed without overtly malicious intent.
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