We all have our own ways of creating our perfect work environment.

At some point in life, we all need advice and being a mentor is a meaningful way to provide it. Mentoring not only empowers others but also ourselves.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) was created to best uphold the fundamental personal information rights of individuals and further unify the member states of the EU in their endeavor to manage and protect data. The GDPR’s predecessor, the Data Protection Directive (the Directive) was in place to afford similar protections to data subjects. However, since the Directive’s adoption in 1995, we’ve seen tremendous changes to the technology landscape and a constancy of cross-boarder data transfers, and we’ve recognized that the protections offered through the previous legislation were antiquated and obsolete. With the introduction of the GDPR, individuals have been empowered like never before, and organizations bound to the new framework are starting to feel the weight of that.

What keeps security professionals up at night isn’t the idea of outsider threats attacking their companies—it’s their employees. Nearly 61 percent of security leaders surveyed said their biggest issue is worrying about negligent or malicious employees, which they claim are responsible for over half of their organization’s data breaches or security incidents.

I’m sure you’ll have noticed in the last few years of using smart phones that every time you add a new app, no matter what that app is for, it asks if it can “use your location”. Sure, you get a chance to allow or not, but how many of us just click that allow button without thinking what information that simple choice conveys?

The audit world isn’t as scary as people make it out to be. But there are things that you can only learn in the audit profession through experience and not in the classroom. Here are some of the biggest takeaways I learned as a first year auditor:

According to a recent survey published by RightScale Inc., more than 90 percent of businesses use some form of cloud technology. The benefits of using the cloud are clearly undeniable, but that doesn’t mean getting set up and running on the proper solution for your organization is effortless.

When two alpinists approach the same rock wall, they may both have the goal of reaching the summit, but the process they take to get there likely diverges greatly. Maybe one hikes up the backside while the other opts to climb the rock face directly—it likely depends on their individual skills, their gear, etc.