With data breaches regularly marking the headlines, it is no surprise that digital threats constitute an increasingly significant concern for the C-Suite and cyber security experts. What is surprising, however, is that these two groups don’t seem to share the same view of information security. They have different opinions when it comes to the digital threat landscape in general as well as their organization’s level of preparedness in particular.

These days the word ‘intelligence’ pops up in any conversation on security. Why is the industry cannot get enough of it? What is the difference between intelligence and information? What is intelligence-led security? Let’s take a look.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. An article that prompts many questions regarding use of PII in a passive way, misses one obvious question: Why was Wi-Fi enabled on 5.9 million devices while in transit? When you next get a moment, just check what, and why you need Wi-Fi and other communications features enabled all the time.

We’re proud to announce a new USM Anywhere App for Box! We use the Box Events API to track and detect detailed activity on Box. This new addition to the set of USM Apps arrives to provide an extra security layer to cloud storage services that many enterprises are outsourcing to Box. Beyond monitoring and data collection, USM offers early detection of critical events and alerting, thanks to event correlation and business intelligence.

As of today, security is a hot topic for not just IT industry but almost everyone. From personal mail accounts to data encryption, everyone has something valuable to protect. When we ‘protect’ something, we build a physical and/or virtual system that hinders any unauthorized viewers and users.

Detection of change is easy… There, I said it. Anyone can do it. One thousand monkeys with keyboards can pound out scripts to detect change. What is not so easy, what the monkeys can’t do, is reconcile change. Even worse, it’s usually the monkeys who make the changes that bring everything crashing down around your knees. It’s the reconciliation of change that most organizations have the most trouble with. What was the change? When was it made? Who made it? Was it authorized?

The explosion of unstructured content is undeniable, and this growth is being fueled by businesses. The files that keep the wheels of business turning — documents, spreadsheets, images, PDFs — double in volume every 1-2 years. As unstructured content becomes more integral to business gets done, its value grows too. As it goes with anything of value, it becomes highly coveted, even to the point that others try to steal it. So what is a business to do?

Many of you will remember the 25th of May 2018 as the day GDPR became legally enforceable. That week, our emails were bombarded with updates to privacy policies or requests for us to ‘opt-in’ to having our data processed. Funnily enough, many of these were unnecessary and, in some cases, missed the point entirely.

The concept of emotional intelligence was first introduced by psychologist Dr. Daniel Goleman in 1995. Dr. Goleman found that while intelligence (IQ) is an important factor in leadership, a high level of emotional intelligence (EI) marks those who emerge as highly effective leaders. Emotional intelligence involves soft skills such as discipline, motivation and empathy.