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Your garden variety ransomware, like Cerber, is the canary in the coal mine that rudely, but thankfully announces bigger security issues: insider threats and cyberattacks that take advantage of too...

Use PowerShell to help test and resolve issues from WannaCry / WannaCrypt variants and other ransomware attacks.

Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts your data and asks for you to pay a ransom to restore access to your files. Cyber criminals usually request that the...

Remember those NSA exploits that got leaked a few months back? A new variant of ransomware using those exploits is spreading quickly across the world – affecting everyone from the...

If you were expecting a quiet Friday in terms of cyberattacks, this ain’t it. There are reports of a massive ransomware attack affecting computers on a global scale: in the...

In the previous post in this series, I suggested that it may be possible to unify my separate scripts — one for event handling, the other for classification — into...

Getting to least privilege can be a nightmare. The first steps – tracking down inconsistent ACLs and remediating global access groups can turn even the most basic file share clean-up...

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...

A Data Security Platform (DSP) is a category of security products that replaces traditionally disparate security tools to reduce risk and prevent threats.

In 2005, our founders had a vision to build a solution focused on protecting the data organizations have the most of and yet know the least about – files and...