Hidden Cyber Risks in Your Org Chart: Unquantified Exposure

You can’t patch what you can’t see — or manage the risk you don’t understand. 

Across every enterprise, people outside IT have quietly become application owners. 
In many cases, a business needs to secure access to an application, which means saying “yes” to being the owner of the application.  It was simply a step to get the job done.

But that simple “yes” now carries weight. Everyday decisions, or lack of ownership,  can expose the business to audit findings, compliance failures, and costly security breaches, not to mention applications that are no longer owned by anyone at all. 

These aren’t bad actors; they’re unprepared ones. A hidden people-risk now sits in every org chart, with IBM estimating that 48 % of enterprise applications are unmanaged. 

The Leadership Challenge 

For CEOs, CHROs, and CFOs, this isn’t a technology problem; it’s an accountability gap. 
Your organisation’s cyber exposure no longer lives only in servers and systems. It lives in the hands of everyday employees who made the right decision at the time to become an application owner, to move fast, to get access, to enable productivity, without understanding the governance attached to that role. 

Every unmanaged or unowned application is now a shadow layer of risk sitting beneath your audit framework and insurance coverage. 

The Business Cost of Inaction 

According to IBM, the average cost of a data breach reached $4.4 million last year. 
Yet the underlying cause in many cases isn’t malicious intent; it’s missed visibility. 
A single unpatched, unowned, or outdated application can create disproportionate damage to brand, operations, and reputation. 

The good news? The solution is not to recruit more application managers in IT and increase your headcount.  The solution is strategic, scalable, automated,  faster, simpler, and less costly than ever. 
For a fraction of the cost of a single breach, you can achieve full visibility, structured accountability, and automated assurance. 

The Solution: Structured Readiness 

Juriba's Windows Application Management solutions, powered by Juriba.ai, give enterprises the automation and structure to close that gap. 
Juriba Windows Application Management delivers the automation and visibility to close that gap. The Juriba App Owner solution helps enterprise businesses identify which applications need owners, assign them, and track their activities. Meanwhile, Juriba App Readiness supports both IT and the business with smart workflows to automate up to 80% of packaging and testing tasks and achieve 100% application coverage, so no app is left unmanaged, unpatched, or delayed. Together, these solutions turn accidental accountability into controlled readiness. 

Through smart automation and seamless workflows, Juriba App Readiness and App Owner solutions empower business and IT users alike by: 

• Automate up to 80% of applications, freeing IT teams from manual coordination and repetitive effort.
• Achieve 97% faster application smoke testing through robust package testing.
• Reduce application management costs by up to 40%, enabling teams to focus on high-value, complex, and security-critical initiatives.
• Accelerate IT responsiveness and employee satisfaction with rapid application packaging and testing completed in just 7–15 minutes, available 24/7/365.
• Improve visibility and reduce risk associated with unmanaged applications by identifying those lacking ownership, assigning clear responsibility, and receiving alerts when owners fail to respond or leave.
• Scale packaging, testing, and publishing across thousands of applications with consistency and compliance.
• Leverage Juriba AI intelligence to remove human error from command-line selection and automate complex steps. 

 This isn’t about adding another tool; it’s about establishing a new layer of governance through visibility and automation. 

Why It Matters 

Because even one unmanaged app or unowned app is a risk. 
And every employee, from IT to HR to Finance, plays a role in protecting your organisation’s data and reputation. 

Juriba's Windows Application Management helps enterprises protect their people as much as their systems,  reducing exposure, improving compliance, and strengthening resilience from the inside out. 

Make the Hidden Risk Visible

Unmanaged applications are no longer just an IT issue.
They’re a business risk sitting across your organisation.

Our executive whitepaper, Windows Application Management: The Unquantified Risk in Your Organisation, breaks down:

• Where unmanaged and unpatched applications really come from
• Why traditional ownership models fail to keep up with modern enterprises
• The financial, compliance, and security impact of poor application management
• How leading organisations are using automation and visibility to close the gap

Get a clear view of the risks hiding in your application estate and the practical steps to eliminate them.

Download the whitepaper today
and start turning blind spots into controlled readiness.

See your organisation clearly. Visibility is where control begins. 

Discover how Juriba's Windows Application Management solutions deliver full visibility, automation, and confidence across your application estate.