Big data has ushered in a new executive role over the past few years. The chief data officer or CDO now joins the C-level club, tasked with leveraging data science...

Some things go together like peanut butter and jelly: delicious, delightful and a good alternative to my dad’s “Thai-Italian Fusion” dinner experiments as a kid. When other things are combined...

Alan Cizenski is a Corporate Systems Engineer at Varonis. Based in our New York City office, he is responsible for making sure Varonis solutions work smoothly for our prospective customers....

You respond to a ransomware attack in many of the same ways you would to any other cyber attack. In short: have plans in place to analyze the malware, contain...

Last week, Mirai-like wormware made the news again with attacks on ISPs in the UK. Specifically, customers of TalkTalk and PostOffice reported Internet outages. As with the last Mirai incident...

Pen Testing Active Directory Environments, PowerView, and how to go on the offensive with AD, take a look at our guide!

When you think of a website getting hacked, you might picture someone in a hoodie in a high tech bunker (or their mom’s basement), wailing on a keyboard, controlling thousands...

After my post last week on the great Mirai Internet takedown of 2016, I received some email in response. One of the themes in the feedback was, roughly, that ‘Mirai...

Once upon a time in early 2016, we were talking with pen tester Ken Munro about the security of IoT gadgetry — everything from wireless doorbells to coffee makers and...

NTFS permissions are used to manage access to the files and folders that are stored in NTFS file systems. When you are using share and NTFS (NT File System) permissions together, the most restrictive permission wins.

It is 2016 and some people still think SQL Server cannot be run on a virtual machine. SQL Server can successfully run in a VM but SQL is resource-intensive by...

Privileged access management is the process to monitor and secure your most sensitive user accounts. Keep reading to find out how to use PAM to keep your data safe.