In our “Tips from the Pros” series, we’ll be the presenting interviews we’ve conducted with working IT professionals. These are the admins and managers responsible for security, access, and control...

Discover how to protect high‑value intellectual property at scale with a unified approach to data discovery, classification, and automated remediation.

Unlike business application data, like a billing database or CRM system, or machine-generated data, such as the log files that servers generate, human-generated data is comprised of the emails, Word...

Many web applications give users the ability to share private information with unauthenticated users via obscure, publicly accessible URLs. These URLs, often called “external links” or “shared links,” are a...

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...

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

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...

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)...