Last week during our monthly webinar, David Gibson, VP of Marketing and Matt Gilbo, Director of West Coast Sales, gave a demonstration of how Varonis can help organizations effectively protect their unstructured and semi-structured data (documents, images, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.) … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Enterprise Transformation
I attended EMC World last week. It was my first time at the conference, and I must say, to call the event grandiose would be a gross understatement. The overall theme was “transform.” Transform your business, transform IT, transform yourself. … Continue reading
A new weekly newsletter about Big Data
Big Data Weekly is a newsletter that highlights the week’s top big data news, links, blog posts and more in a digest delivered to your inbox each week. I know what you’re thinking: “Not another email!” Hear me out – … Continue reading
Is Big Data IT’s Secret Weapon for Information Security?
When I talk to IT security pros today about how they manage and protect data, most describe grueling manual processes and makeshift solutions comprised of countless off-the-shelf products and fragile homegrown scripts. Fortunately, most of us understand the importance of … Continue reading
Rage Against the Machine Data
In big data-land, all the talk lately seems to be about machine data. There is a flood of machine data being spewed into log files and databases. We’ve got web traffic logs, application event logs, OS logs, call center records, … Continue reading
Data Classification Tips: Finding Credit Card Numbers
4 Useful Regular Expressions and Algorithm Combinations for Finding Credit Card Numbers 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 … Continue reading
Fixing Access Control without Inciting a Riot
In a previous post, Fixing the Open Shares Problem, we talked about some of the challenges we face when trying to remediate access to open shares. One of the main problems is minimizing the impact these clean-up activities can have … Continue reading
Varonis Data Governance Awards 2012
Varonis is pleased to announce the Varonis Data Governance Awards 2012. The awards are designed to reward the innovation, determination and dedication that our customers apply, every day, to protecting and managing their data with our products. We want to … Continue reading
Exchange Journaling and Diagnostics: How to
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) and, if collected and analyzed, may help organizations answer basic … Continue reading
InfoSecurity 2012 Highlights
Last week I was fortunate to attend InfoSecurity 2012 in London. The energy level seemed much higher than in previous years, for both attendees and exhibitors. Just under 13000 people were there, up 24% from last year, and those that stopped … Continue reading