Vigilfy

  For decades, security decisions were made on gut feel, industry convention, and whatever a vendor's sales rep said over lunch. That era is over. Here's what replacing it — and what it means for how you manage risk, evaluate security vendors, and run your operations day to day. What data-driven security actually means The phrase gets thrown around a lot, but it's worth being clear about what it means in practice. Data-driven security is the discipline of making protection decisions — where to deploy resources, which threats to prioritize, when to escalate, how to measure performance — based on verified data rather than convention, assumption, or anecdote. In the physical security world, it might mean using GPS patrol logs and incident frequency data to decide whether a particular building entrance needs more coverage at certain times. In cybersecurity, it means using threat intelligence feeds, breach lifecycle metrics, and vulnerability scoring to determine which exposure...