• IT Management Commentary Insight and analysis on the information technology space from industry thought leaders. • The IT Bermuda Triangle: Where Do All the Unknown Assets Go? • Assets are disappearing from inventory, unauthorized devices are appearing without notice, and blind spots are emerging. • August 28, 2025 By Ofer Rever, Faddom Modern IT infrastructures are expanding across hybrid and multi-cloud environments and becoming increasingly complex, dynamic, and challenging to manage. • Organizations struggle to track every asset, dependency, and data flow in real time as systems grow more distributed. • According toIBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024, 35% of breaches involved shadow data, unmanaged and often unknown data sources.
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The article highlights a growing “IT Bermuda Triangle” where assets vanish from inventory, unauthorized devices appear, and blind spots emerge in hybrid and multi‑cloud environments. It cites IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, noting that 35 % of breaches involve shadow data and 40 % involve data spread across multiple environments, underscoring visibility gaps. The piece explains that legacy CMDBs and static discovery tools cannot keep pace with rapid, dynamic changes, leading to asset drift and unapproved “shadow IT.” The result is heightened risk, higher costs, and operational complexity, calling for continuous, real‑time visibility solutions.
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