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Data Security
Apr 21, 2014
How to Configure Varonis and EMC Isilon
Customers of EMC’s popular Isilon storage platform have been clamoring for sophisticated controls around their sensitive, regulated content—e.g., SOX, PCI, intellectual property, etc. Varonis is the perfect fit. With our...
Rob Sobers
1 min read
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Active Directory
Apr 16, 2014
Best Practices for Naming an Active Directory Domain
When you’re naming domains, it should be planned as carefully as you would in naming your first child – of course I’m exaggerating – but it’s worth planning carefully. For...
Michael Buckbee
1 min read
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Data Security
Mar 11, 2014
5 Privacy Concerns about Wearable Technology
With over 55 different fitness wearable devices to choose from, the wearables market has breathed new life into our personal health, providing us with more insight into our sleep patterns,...
Michael Buckbee
3 min read
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Data Security
Mar 05, 2014
Automate Exchange Distribution List Management
From a business perspective, distribution lists (DLs) for email communications are a powerful and well-understood concept in IT. And they are popular: Exchange admins have voted with their right-clicks, creating...
Michael Buckbee
2 min read
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Data Security
Feb 14, 2014
CIFS vs SMB: What's the Difference?
CIFS, SMB, Samba, and NFS are technolgies used to network client and server systems. Learn the difference between them and which to use when.
Rob Sobers
3 min read
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Data Security
Jan 21, 2014
Cryptography May Not Be Dead, But It Is on Life Support
Cindy and I had the good fortune of attending part of the Real World Cryptography Workshop held last week in New York City. We went primarily to listen to Bruce...
Michael Buckbee
4 min read
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Data Security
Dec 23, 2013
Tips From the Pros: Best Practices for Managing Large Amounts of Shared Data
In our “Tips from the Pros” series, we’ll be the presenting interviews we’ve conducted with working IT professionals. These are the admins and managers responsible for security, access, and control...
David Gibson
3 min read
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Data Security
Nov 07, 2013
How to Do Data Classification at Scale
One of the important points we make in our recently published Information Entr opy report is that you can’t just decide you have intellectual property, issue NDAs to employees, and...
Michael Buckbee
4 min read
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Data Security
Oct 03, 2013
8 Things to Look for in File Auditing Software
Here is a list of 8 critical factors IT pros should consider when evaluating file auditing software.
Rob Sobers
1 min read
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Data Security
Sep 30, 2013
What is Human Generated Data?
Unlike business application data, like a billing database or CRM system, or machine-generated data, such as the log files that servers generate, human-generated data is comprised of the emails, Word...
Rob Sobers
1 min read
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Security Bulletins
Aug 21, 2013
New PII Discovered: License Plate Pictures
After finishing up some research on personally identifiable information I thought, mistakenly, that I was familiar with the most exotic forms of PII uncovered in recent years, including zip code-birth...
Michael Buckbee
1 min read
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Data Security
Jun 11, 2013
The Dangers of Shared Links
Many web applications give users the ability to share private information with unauthenticated users via obscure, publicly accessible URLs. These URLs, often called “external links” or “shared links,” are a...
Rob Sobers
4 min read
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