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Biometric data is at the limits of what current personal data privacy laws consider worthy of protection. This type of identifier covers fingerprints, voiceprints, and facial images. While the risk...

While I was conducting some research on compliance laws for a customer, I found myself reviewing the penalties written into the 1996 Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, otherwise known...

The key difference between attempting to assign data owners manually and attacking it intelligently with Varonis is the DatAdvantage audit trail.

In order for organizations to find an effective solution to help deal with stale data and comply with defensible disposition requirements, there are 4 secrets to efficiently identify and clean-up stale data...

Last time I talked about how cryptographic hash functions are used to scramble passwords. I also stressed why it is extremely important to not be able to take a hash...

” Password-based security mechanisms — which can be cracked, reset, and socially engineered — no longer suffice in the era of cloud computing.” If you haven’t read Gizmodo writer Mat Honan’s...

Give me any message and I will create a secret code to obscure it. Try it! “This really opened my eyes to AD security in a way defensive work never...

In order to maintain proper access controls, it’s crucial to understand what every entity on an access control list (ACL) represents, including the implicit identities that are built into a...

Complexity is dangerous in the security world. The harder something is to understand, the harder it is to protect. SharePoint falls squarely into this category. Configuring permissions in SharePoint can...

Data classification is a critical piece of the data governance puzzle. In order to be successful at governing data, you have to know—at all times—where your sensitive data is concentrated,...

Journaling and Diagnostics Logging are services to monitor and audit activity on Microsoft Exchange servers. They provide basic auditing functionality for email activity (e.g. who sent which message to whom)...

Big data is a very hot topic, and with the Splunk IPO last week seeing a 1999-style spike, the bandwagon is overflowing. We’re poised to see many businesses pivoting into...