Even before the epic attack on its systems at the hands of the Guardians of Peace, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) was having to put out a not insignificant number of digital fires. That's according to a leaked security audit in the files nabbed in November. In a 25 September letter delivered to Jason Spaltro, senior vice president of information security at Sony Pictures, it's noted that Sony's Global Security Incident Response Team TISI +0.76% (GSIRT), which monitors systems across the entirety of the electronics business for threats, "escalated 193 security incidents to SPE Corporate IT" between 1 September 2013 and 30 June 2014. One more was escalated – IT speak for informing a department that they need to look into an attack or other security issue – to Internet Systems Technology, a unit within the IT department at Sony Pictures. An alert on one other potentially serious issue was delivered to the Imageworks team.