Whitepapers

5 Security Analytics Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them
Discover how security analytics can overcome common pitfalls to reduce false positives, accelerate investigations, and stop more attacks more quickly.
Read More7 Key Risk Indicators in the Varonis Active Directory Dashboard
The Varonis Active Directory Dashboard does. Varonis highlights hackers' favorite weaknesses in AD that cybercriminals take advantage of to gain a foothold and steal your data. This whitepaper highlights seven of those weaknesses and shows you how you can strengthen your defenses with knowledge from Varonis.

7 Best Practices for Data Security in Office 365 and Beyond
Office 365 is dominating the cloud, yet its native security is lacking unified controls required to protect the billions of sensitive files that flow between internal storage and the cloud. Learn why cloud-centric security isn't enough - and the 7 best practices to secure data in a hybrid environment.
Is Your Unstructured Data Ready for IAM?
Most unstructured data needs some serious TLC before it can be managed in an IAM solution: you need to deal with unique permissions, inconsistent inheritance, overexposed data, stale data, and more. In this whitepaper, discover how to overcome these issues and make your IAM unstructured data project successful.
12 Ways Varonis Helps With Mergers and Acquisitions
One of the key challenges with any Merger & Acquisition is how to protect, classify, manage, and migrate unstructured data throughout the entire process. Discover best practices in this whitepaper.

3 Ways Varonis Enhances Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Data loss prevention (DLP) has long been considered a key technology to help limit the loss of critical and sensitive enterprise data - from intellectual property to financial information to personally identifiable information (PII). Varonis helps go beyond traditional DLP with a data-centric security approach to add context, visibility, and advanced threat detection.
3 Ways Varonis Helps You Fight Insider Threats
Insider threats keeping your executives up at night? They’ll probably always be worried, and rightly so, but there are things you can do to help them get a little shuteye, and get in a few extra winks for yourself, too.
3 Ways Varonis Helps You Fight Ransomware
Ransomware can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be. By combining sophisticated analytics with access management, you can protect yourself from ransomware with rapid detection, optimized access controls, and data-driven recovery.

PCI DSS for IT Pros and Other Humans
Varonis has reviewed the PCI Council’s 12 step program towards compliance and scaled it down to 3 straightforward meta steps. Grab our free guide: PCI DSS for IT Pros and Other Humans to learn these steps and take action today!

11 Things IT Should Be Doing (But Isn’t)
This free whitepaper outlines 11 things that most IT departments aren’t doing, but should. As a result, sensitive data is unprotected and being accessed by the wrong people, expensive storage is littered with stale data, and access controls are broken.

4 Tips to Secure Active Directory
We gathered all the tried-and-true tips, tricks, and best practices from the day to day experiences of AD Admins and security professionals who are in the trenches daily and put them together in one document.

How Varonis Helps With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Broadly speaking, the GDPR simply turns IT practices and data Security ideas into law. But how can you best approach it? Discover how to meet GDPR regulation - and how Varonis helps - in this whitepaper.

Insider Threats: Malice, Mistakes, and Mountain Lions
Protecting against insider threats, whether malicious or accidental, is extremely difficult, especially when 71% of employees say that they have access to information they aren’t supposed to see. Grab our free guide to 6 tactics for preventing insider threats.