We’re bringing our powerful DatAlert functionality to Splunk® Enterprise to give you comprehensive visibility into data security with our new Varonis App fo

At the end of the previous post, we took up the nuts-and-bolts issues of protecting sensitive data in an organization’s file system. One popular approach, least-privileged access model, is often...

I can’t really overstate the importance of risk assessments in data security standards. It’s really at the core of everything you subsequently do in a security program. In this post...

Last time, with a few lines of PowerShell code, I launched an entire new software category, File Access Analytics (FAA). My 15-minutes of fame is almost over, but I was...

Over the last few years, I’ve written about many different data security standards, data laws, and regulations. So I feel comfortable in saying there are some similarities in the EU’s...

In working on this series, I almost feel that with PowerShell we have technology that somehow time-traveled back from the future. Remember on Star Trek – the original of course...

In this series on governmental responses to cybercrime, we’re taking a look at how countries through their laws are dealing with broad attacks against IT infrastructure beyond just data theft....

You may have been following our series of posts on pen testing Active Directory environments and learned about the awesome powers of PowerView. No doubt you were wowed by our cliffhanger...

Back when I was writing the ultimate penetration testing series to help humankind deal with hackers, I came across some interesting PowerShell cmdlets and techniques. I made the remarkable discovery...

Cloudflare is a huge internet infrastructure company (5.5 million websites), which means that you likely use them every day that you’re online, without ever realizing it. Depending on what metric...

In the IOS blog, our cyberattack focus has mostly been on hackers stealing PII and other sensitive personal data. The breach notification laws and regulations that we write about require...

Every day we hear new stories about how our customers are using DatAlert to stop cyberattacks: detecting and disabling ransomware infections, discovering misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and setting up automatic responses...