Ask an IT professional about potential dangers lurking within his or her software and hardware infrastructure, and the conversation will often turn to security: how to keep sensitive information safe from a costly and embarrassing data breach. But that's only part of the story. Although business and IT leaders are vigilant in protecting their infrastructure from attack, they often need protection from hazards caused by ineffective management of the infrastructure itself. The speed and ease with which today's end users can deploy hardware, software, and cloud-based solutions-often without the assistance or knowledge of the IT department-can knock an entire enterprise out of compliance before anyone realizes it. Even worse, rogue IT spending and the redundancy it creates can drain organizations of millions of dollars in unrecognized costs, quarter after quarter, year after year.
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