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 Protection
[VIDEO] The Data Maturity Model
Over the past couple of years we’ve gathered a rich set of data from both IT and non-IT people, and through research and analysis, we’ve come to some eye-opening conclusions about the state of organizational data protection. The video below … Continue reading
The Internet Delete Button
Compliance Update: EU Data Protection Regulations Postponed Again Over the past few months, I’ve mentioned that the EU’s Data Protection Directive is in the process of a major revision. The most controversial change to the DPD is the “Right to … Continue reading
The Top 6 Exploits Used by Government Hackers
Yes, hackers can be spies. Stay calm, all the same rules still apply. Along with the rest of America, I read the headlines last week about the Chinese military hacking into US defense contractors’ computer systems. Though the words “cyber attack” take … Continue reading
Personally Identifiable Information Hides in Dark Data
To my mind, HIPAA has the most sophisticated view of PII of all the US laws on the books. Their working definition encompasses vanilla identifiers: social security and credit card numbers, and all the other usual suspects. With the additional … Continue reading
The State of the Breach
By coincidence, Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) for 2012 was released this week along with the results of our Privacy Survey. So it’s a good time for a quick tour of the state of the breach. In reviewing this … Continue reading
EU to Google: We Really Mean it About Data Retention Limits
“Are these data and privacy protection regulations serious or are they just for show?” I’ve been hearing that question lately from the tech reporters and journalists who’ve been contacting me. Even after pointing out extensive case files and other documented … Continue reading
Internal Data Loss is Riskier Than You Think
In an excellent blog post, Gartner research director Anton Chuvakin poses the question: is an Excel spreadsheet full of credit card numbers on a poorly permissioned internal file share considered a data breach? Many information security pros and even some … Continue reading
Unknown Unknowns of the Dark Data Menace
It’s nice for us to see we’re not the only ones pointing out the challenges of unstructured data for organizations and IT departments. Analysts and other industry observers use a different name, dark data, but the issues on their agenda … Continue reading
5 Steps to Get Data Owners Started
During a recent conversation a customer asked if we had a Getting Started Guide for Data Owners. After using Varonis to identify and assign owners, one of the new data owners asked, “What am I supposed to do now? What … Continue reading
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