Articles by
Kilian Englert

Kilian has a background in enterprise security engineering, as well as security solution selling. Kilian is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and creates internal and public content on topics related to cyber security and technology best practices.
Watch: Varonis ReConnect! Automated Risk Reduction
When your organization is drowning in data, how do you realistically reduce cybersecurity risk and reach least privilege? Click to watch Kilian and Brian walk through the TL;DR version of...
Threat Update #17 – Automated Threat Responses
Ever think about automating responses to threat detections? We sure do! Click to watch Kilian Englert and Ryan O’Boyle from the Varonis Incident Response team discuss how one customer created...
Threat Update #16 – O365 & Business Email Compromise
How can companies tell the difference between legitimate email activity from malicious activity if they suspect someone is inappropriately accessing a user’s email? Click to watch Kilian Englert and Ryan...
Threat Update #15 – Thanksgiving Special Edition
This week, Kilian Englert and Ryan O’Boyle take a break from their usual Threat Update discussions to ham it up and discuss some personal “threats” they face this Thanksgiving. We...
Threat Update #14 – Post-Ransomware Recovery
To stop ransomware, every second counts. But once the threat is contained, the race is on to get back up and running after a ransomware incident. Click to watch Kilian Englert...
Threat Update #13 – Slashing exposed data to survive ransomware attacks
As if ransomware weren’t bad enough, global group access raises risk exponentially. Once attackers land on a network, they can open, copy, change, or delete any and all files left...
Threat Update #12 – Does Zerologon Change the Game?
Cybercriminals are using the Zerologon exploit to fast track lateral movement and privilege escalation. If left unpatched, the exploit lets attackers use the password of the primary domain controller to...
Threat Update #11 – Attack Attribution
In cybersecurity, incident response is the big game and analysis is the postgame wrap-up. After the threat is contained, security investigators can dive into what they’ve found to look for...
Threat Update #10
An alert notifies you that something suspicious is going on. Minutes matter, so you call the Varonis Incident Response team to help. Security investigators must act fast, but where do...
Varonis Threat Update #9
When ransomware strikes, minutes matter. But an attack may not always be what it seems. That’s because ransomware can serve as a clever – and effective – smokescreen designed to...