Jeff Petters

This blog will cover five Varonis reports that you can automatically generate for data owners to promote strong data governance practices. We will show you how to create, customize, schedule,...

If you were hired at a top financial institution as a junior analyst tomorrow, chances are you’d have access to 20% of the company’s data on day one. Data available...

Amazon led the way into Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Netflix, NASA, and the U.S. Navy all use Amazon as their backend. AWS S3 is...

Honeypots are traps that the Blue Team (defenders) plant to catch potentially bad actors trying to exploit a vulnerability, snoop for data, or escalate privileges. Since a honeypot is a decoy,...

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a security paradigm whereby users are granted access to resources based on their role in the company. RBAC, if implemented correctly, can be an effective...

Unstructured data governance can be a chaotic mess. A new employee has access to 17,000,000 files the moment they walk in the door. Unmanaged data access represents a considerable risk...

Employee data theft is a specific insider threat where a malicious insider steals data from the current organization for monetary gain or a competing company’s benefit. The Tesla incident is...

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests are one of the ways that public organizations are held accountable by the media and the members of the community they serve. FOI laws require...

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s enterprise cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution. Azure AD is the backbone of the Office 365 system, and it can sync with...

A man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack is a form of cyberattack where important data is intercepted by an attacker using a technique to interject themselves into the communication process. The attacker can...