Shadow IT has always been a headache for security teams. Successive shifts in enterprise tech have always created blind spots and hidden behaviours that need to be discovered and secured. With the advent of SaaS apps, employees suddenly had a myriad of tools available to better collaborate and work. They quickly adopted them, often unaware of security approval processes, creating SaaS sprawl, shadow cloud, and significant changes in digital estates that some organisations are still grappling with. 

Regulation is moving faster than solutions can adapt. Regulation is changing at a pace that increasingly challenges the systems built to manage it. Even the most advanced RegTechs are constrained by a deeper issue: the data layer – the foundation every solution depends on, remains fragmented, inconsistent, and hard to operationalise at scale.