I.T. Managers Struggle to Contain Corporate Data in the Mobile Age - NYTimes.com

Excerpt from a stark "shadow I.T." reality check

"Almost no service is invulnerable. In 2011, Chinese hackers obtained access to hundreds of United States government accounts on Google’s Gmail. Last July, Dropbox, one of the most widely used storage services, reported a loss of data from a large number of customers. Without special instructions, customer sales information in the online service of Salesforce.com can be moved to private accounts at Box. On Saturday, Evernote said user names, e-mail address and encrypted passwords had been stolen in an attack, requiring the passwords of more than 50 million accounts to be reset."

I.T. Managers Struggle to Contain Corporate Data in the Mobile Age - NYTimes.com