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Viruses and worms are often used interchangeably: there are a few key differences in how they work. Both viruses and worms are a type of malware: a worm is a...

Breaches cost companies billions, erode trust and can have a long-lasting negative impact on a company’s brand. With so much as stake, we wondered: are C-Suite executives aligned with their...

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that allows identity providers (IdP) to pass authorization credentials to service providers (SP). In this article we will discuss what SAML is, what it is used for and how it works.

How defenders use honeypots to unmask hackers, scammers, and internet catfish with tracking links

Version 7.0 of the Varonis Data Security Platform is here – featuring new cloud support and advanced threat detection and response capabilities: new event sources and enrichment; out-of-the-box threat intelligence applied to...

Hacker are motivated by different things to compromise your data. See what patterns hackers have been following and how you can keep your company safe.

A whaling attack specifically targets senior management in an organization such as the CEO, CFO, or other executives, hoping to leverage their authority to gain access to sensitive data. Discover everything you need to know about this attack including tips for avoiding one with our guide.

The Golden Ticket Attack, discovered by security researcher Benjamin Delpy, gives an attacker total and complete access to your entire domain. It’s a Golden Ticket (just like in Willy Wonka)...

The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program is a United States government cybersecurity initiative led by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) leads...

Security audits are crucial to maintaining effective securilty policies and practices — learn best practices, audit types and what to look for in an audit

DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) is a programming construct that allows a computer to run programs over the network on a different computer as if the program was running locally. Our guide details everything you need to know and more, check it out!

But if you drill down a little in your thinking, it’s easy to see that data security is ultimately protecting a file somewhere on your system—whether desktops or servers. While data security is a good umbrella term, we need to get into more details to understand file security.