We’re focused on empowering our end users to locate the content they need, fast. Businesses leverage Egnyte because we fit so seamlessly into day-to-day operations. File access, security management, and permissions control are as important to us as they are to the organizations we serve. We strive to ensure our users can find any file in just three clicks (or taps for mobile) and this blog highlights some of the ways in which we make this possible.

Prior to 2005, there used to be quite a debate over Security Information Management (SIM) and Security Event Management (SEM). This debate was ended for once and all by Amrit Williams and Mark Nicollet of Gartner when they defined SIEM – Security Information Event Management in 2005.

A while back I wrote up a post on the quick install of Forseti Security. I had a chance to mess around with the 2.0 version and wanted to note a few things down here and talk about how I’m trying out the idea of Security Policy as Code.

Modern log aggregation stacks including ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Google’s Stackdriver, or AWS Cloudwatch are great tools, but their browser-based interfaces are not for everybody. At Egnyte, we rely heavily on logs to monitor our systems and solve customer issues. Therefore, many of our engineers depend on Kibana, the ELK browser-based query tool.

With the ever-evolving threat landscape, cybersecurity is something that can neither be taken lightly nor ignored. This statement holds true irrespective of the size of your business. Although from a marketing perspective, every type of publicity is a good publicity, you would definitely not want your company to come into the headlines for a data breach.

SIEM solution, as one of the best cybersecurity solutions, can help organizations being compliant with the GDPR strict requirements. As a matter of fact, GDPR compliance is indispensable for enterprises managing the data of European Union (EU) citizens because noncompliant organizations have to bear the brunt of huge penalties in terms of massive fine and reputational damage.

The recent scandal involving Facebook’s data privacy has garnered global media attention and widespread mistrust for the social platform. It all erupted when it was reported that private information from approximately 87 million profiles was used to covertly influence the 2016 U.S. election.

Across every major news outlet the topic of cyber security threats and data privacy are impossible to miss. From multinational companies being relieved of millions of credit card numbers, to foreign hacking, to the selling of user data via social media, digital security is clearly more important than ever. Threats are being realized by vulnerable organizations large and small.