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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of the cornerstones for both regulatory compliance and healthcare cybersecurity. Hospitals, insurance companies and healthcare providers all need to follow a HIPAA compliance checklist to safeguard private and sensitive patient data.

Salesforce Admins balance the constant tension of keeping pace with rapid business needs and optimizing Salesforce processes. Admins — who often manage multiple Salesforce Orgs — are responsible for assigning users’ permissions and have to ensure Salesforce is configured properly each time the software updates. It’s safe to say an admin’s work is never done, but Varonis can make each day easier.

Introduction First observed in October 2022, HardBit is a ransomware threat that targets organizations to extort cryptocurrency payments for the decryption of their data.

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Servers running the popular virtualization hypervisor VMware ESXi have come under attack from at least one ransomware group over the past week, likely following scanning activity to identify hosts with Open Service Location Protocol (OpenSLP) vulnerabilities.

GitHub repositories are high-value targets for threat actors. Repos can contain critical secrets, such as passwords, API keys, and tokens that can unlock the door to your most important apps and infrastructure.

Security teams are stretched thin — inundated by endless alerts and plagued by false positives. To help ease the burden, Varonis began offering incident response assistance to customers who reached out for help.

By 2025, more than 99% of cloud breaches will have a root cause of preventable misconfigurations or mistakes by end users, according to Gartner.

Last year, Varonis Threat Labs discovered and disclosed authentication bypasses and social engineering attacks across several popular cloud services like Box, Google, and Zoom.

When excessive data access goes unchecked, one compromised user or rogue insider can inflict untold damage on your business. Reducing the data blast radius is the No. 1 challenge for CISOs today, but it can’t be solved with a one-time cleanup project or manual remediation. At the rate data is created and shared, even an army of admins couldn’t keep up with removing unused or risky permissions. Now, imagine you had a robot that could intelligently and continually remove unnecessary access and enforce least privilege while you sleep. Varonis is thrilled to announce least privilege automation for Microsoft 365, Google Drive, and Box. This enhancement represents yet another way Varonis is delivering effortless data security outcomes to our customers. Varonis also recently added global access group remediation for Windows file shares and CIFS-based filers. Read on to learn how it works!

Security teams are increasingly challenged to mitigate data security and privacy risks across their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. They need to know where sensitive data lives and if it’s exposed — whether that’s through excessive permissions, misconfigurations, offboarding gaps, etc.

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.