What do the FBI and your IT department have in common? They both have to worry about data theft; specifically, the theft of intellectual property (IP). While your organization strives to keep IP out of the hands of the competition, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Data Ownership
Data Stewardship in 13 Minutes a Week
Andrew White, Research VP at Gartner, has a great thesis on data stewardship: “13 minutes a week – that is how much work your data stewards should be doing.” That is, in order for data stewardship (or data ownership) to … Continue reading
Using Varonis: Involving Data Owners – Part II
(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.) If your doctor said “Your blood pressure is 120/95” would that mean anything … Continue reading
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
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
Social Engineering in the Enterprise
In light of Mat Honan’s harrowing story, where both Apple and Amazon fell victim to social engineering attacks attributable to profound weaknesses in their identity verification processes, the billion dollar question becomes: how vulnerable are your company’s internal processes to … Continue reading
How to Accelerate Your Upgrade From Office 2003 with Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM)
Yesterday I was speaking with an attendee at Data Connectors Boston who is involved in a project to upgrade his company’s workstations to Office 2010 from Office 2003. There are a few compatibility issues to be aware of when upgrading … Continue reading
7 Recommendations for Data Protection by Forrester’s Andras Cser
Last week Varonis hosted a webinar on using strong identify context to help protect data, where I was joined by Andras Cser of Forrester. Andras shared really interesting insights on the impact of data breaches, what got stolen, how they … Continue reading
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