Category Archives: Directory Services

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  Posted on June 28, 2012 in Directory Services | Leave a comment

Identifying Active Directory Privilege Escalation

One common headache for IT managers is tracking privileged access, for instance: who granted someone privileged access? When did it happen? What did they do? These questions have ramifications for change control, audit and security—many organizations have sought technologies to … Continue reading →

  Posted on January 3, 2012 in Directory Services, File System Protection, Permissions Management and tagged , | Leave a comment

All I Want for the Fiscal Year End Holiday is an Optimized Security Group

In one of our recent posts, Rob Sobers talked a bit about the Varonis recommendations engine and how it compares with hunch.com’s similar technology. I’m currently in the throes of last minute holiday shopping, and one of the things I … Continue reading →

  Posted on December 23, 2011 in Access Control Reporting, Big Data, Data Ownership, Directory Services, Metadata, Permissions Management and tagged | Leave a comment

The Challenges of Metadata Collection

In my recent post, Improving Authorization with Metadata, we talked about what kinds of information we need in order to start cleaning up access control. This time I want to talk a little bit about how we’ll actually get that … Continue reading →

  Posted on December 9, 2011 in Back To Basics, Directory Services, File System Protection, Metadata, Permissions Management and tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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