b'As we are not publishing in observance of Veterans Day, we thought you might like to check out a couple of episodes of our weekly Word Notes short form podcast that comes out on Tuesdays. Check it out and subscribe today! \\n\\nTechnology, software and hardware deployed without explicit organizational approval. In the early days of the computer era from the 1980s through the 2000s security and information system practitioners considered shadow IT\\xa0as completely negative.\\xa0Those unauthorized systems\\xa0were nothing more\\xa0than a hindrance\\xa0that created more technical debt\\xa0in organizations\\xa0that were already swimming in it with the known\\xa0and authorized systems.'