--- title: "The Rise of Shadow Apps: How Rogue Spreadsheets Are Undermining Your Business" url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-shadow-apps-how-rogue-spreadsheets-are-undermining-your-business-lhymydogt source_url: https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/the-rise-of-shadow-apps-how-rogue-spreadsheets-are-undermining-your-business/ type: article source: "Cybersecurity Insiders" published: 2025-05-20T07:32:46.510Z updated: 2025-05-20T07:33:01.220Z tags: ["security", "cyber"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Rise of Shadow Apps: How Rogue Spreadsheets Are Undermining Your Business **[Cybersecurity Insiders](https://daily.dev/sources/cybersecurityinsiders)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Shadow apps, such as rogue spreadsheets, are software tools created by employees to address workflow issues without official approval, posing risks to data security and integrity. While these apps enhance productivity, their lack of security measures and invisibility to IT can lead to data breaches and inefficiencies. Businesses should address these risks by encouraging employee-led innovation within secure and scalable frameworks, fostering collaboration between IT and other departments to better manage these tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#cyber](https://daily.dev/tags/cyber) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-shadow-apps-how-rogue-spreadsheets-are-undermining-your-business-lhymydogt)