A series of stunning data breaches in 2022 has prompted lawmakers to begin making changes to the 1988 Australian Privacy Act in the form of the new Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill 2022.

Developed by renowned analyst John Kindervag, Zero Trust is a strategic cybersecurity model that protects critical systems and data. Systems operating under a Zero Trust framework do not initially trust access or transactions from anyone — including internal users behind the firewall — and limit data access to minimize the blast radius of a cyber attack.

Benjamin Delpy originally created Mimikatz as a proof of concept to show Microsoft that its authentication protocols were vulnerable to an attack. Instead, he inadvertently created one of the most widely used and downloaded threat actor tools of the past 20 years.

A brute force attack (also known as brute force cracking) is the cyberattack equivalent of trying every key on your key ring, and eventually finding the right one. 5% of confirmed data breach incidents in 2017 stemmed from brute force attacks.

A brute force attack (also known as brute force cracking) is the cyberattack equivalent of trying every key on your key ring, and eventually finding the right one. 5% of confirmed data breach incidents in 2017 stemmed from brute force attacks.

PCI compliance is a set of standards and guidelines for companies to manage and secure credit card related personal data. The major credit card companies – Visa, Mastercard, and American Express – established Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) guidelines in 2006 in an effort to protect credit card data from theft.

For most businesses, data migration is a necessary business process that takes place on a regular basis. Whether it’s implementing a new system or shifting information to more secure storage locations, having a solid data migration strategy that helps organizations is imperative for executive and information technology teams.

The SMB protocol enables “inter-process communication,” which is the protocol that allows applications and services on networked computers to talk to each other. SMB enables the core set of network services such as file, print, and device sharing.

This blog will cover five Varonis reports that you can automatically generate for data owners to promote strong data governance practices. We will show you how to create, customize, schedule, and interpret these reports.

If you were hired at a top financial institution as a junior analyst tomorrow, chances are you’d have access to 20% of the company’s data on day one. Data available to all employees creates organization-wide exposure (OWE), making the likelihood of a devastating breach skyrocket.

If your company’s data is altered or deleted, and you have no way of knowing how, when and by whom, it can have a major impact on data-driven business decisions. This is why data integrity is essential. To understand the importance of data integrity to a company’s bottom line, let us examine what it is, why it’s significant, and how to preserve it.

Imagine you’re the CISO of a 10,000-person organization where users create millions of files and emails each day. Some of that information is highly sensitive—if leaked or stolen, you’re facing a headline-making breach and seven-figure penalties. Most of the data created each day, however, could be published on the front page of the Times without incident.