Category Archives: Access Control Reporting

Using Varonis: “Fast Track” Recommendations

(This is 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.) Over time, a user’s access to systems and data in an organization tends … Continue reading

Fixing the Open Shares Problem

I recently spoke with an IT administrator who had started a manual open share cleanup project—finding and locking down folders and SharePoint sites open to global access groups like Everyone, Domain Users and Authenticated Users. After removing the everyone group … Continue reading

10 Things IT Should Be Doing (But Isn’t): Free On-Demand Webinar

On our last webinar: 10 Things IT Should Be Doing (But Isn’t), we reviewed some of the challenges associated with unstructured data management and protection. IT requires the ability to answer critical questions about data in order to efficiently and … Continue reading

Who Is TRYING To Access Your Data?

In our previous post we discussed how over 80% of data breaches are considered “opportunistic.” The majority of them are regular employees who have excess permissions, who abuse their access to obtain sensitive information. When we take these two things … Continue reading

Substantially Reducing Risk by Cleaning Up Access Permissions

The article, “The Art of Profiling Cyber Criminals” within Dark Reading on December 8th, 2011 provides a brief outline of the characteristics of a typical cyber criminal.  The article is of interest because of its detailed description of the malicious … Continue reading

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