A few posts ago, I wrote about the European Union’s influential 1995 Data Protection Directive and the updates to its consumer privacy rules that will soon go into effect. Over the summer, the Article 29 Working Group, which is a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Using Varonis: Why Data Owners?
(This one entry in a series of posts about the Varonis Operational Plan – a clear path to data governance. You can find the whole series here.) One of my first jobs in IT was on the help desk for a … Continue reading
Meet the Winners of the 2012 Data Governance Awards
Varonis is proud to announce that Philip Morris International, CIBC and Alberta Energy are the three big winners in our first annual Data Governance Awards. Société Générale, BNP Paribas and AXA were also named Highly Commended finalists. Companies around the … Continue reading
City-state Security
Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting piece in Wired yesterday likening cloud providers to feudal lords. Schneier states that we’ve come to a point in the Internet era where users are putting a tremendous amount of trust in companies like Facebook … Continue reading
Using Varonis: Fixing the Biggest Problems
(This one entry in a series of posts about the Varonis Operational Plan – a clear path to data governance. You can find the whole series here.) Now that we have a pretty good idea where the highest-risk data is, the … Continue reading
Big Data, Big Brother
I’ve been writing recently about the volume and depth of personal data that’s spread out across the Internet. Out of curiosity, I registered with a well-known information broker to discover the personal details that had been collected about me. Information … Continue reading
4 Secrets for Archiving Stale Data Efficiently
The mandate to every IT department these days seems to be: “do more with less.” The basic economic concept of scarcity is hitting home for many IT teams, not only in terms of headcount, but storage capacity as well. Teams … Continue reading
Can Companies Learn to Forget About Their Customers?
In my last few posts, I’ve been focusing on how the rise of social media has forced regulators both here and in the EU to revise their definitions of personal data. With the new emphasis on data that can be … Continue reading
Email vs. Employee: Can We Win the Inbox Race? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Many of us think we are masters of our email universe. By sending messages from a desktop app or mobile device, we’re able to direct and coordinate coworkers anywhere in the organization to solve problems and ultimately get the work … Continue reading
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