In late 2024, Salesforce introduced Agentforce, a platform that allows businesses to easily build and deploy autonomous AI agents to automate business processes using Salesforce tools like Workflows, Apex code, and Flows. These AI agents can connect to enterprise data and take actions across sales, service, marketing, commerce, and other functions.

DeepSeek has quickly captured the world’s attention, recently surpassing ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app in Apple's App Store.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed changes to the HIPAA Security Rule at the turn of the 2025 New Year to address several systemic issues and better protect electronic protected health information (ePHI).

Around this time each year, you’ll start to notice various publications releasing articles authored by experts and SMEs that outline the “Yearly Cybersecurity Trends to Watch” or similar topics.

Welcome to Speed Data: Quick Conversations With Cybersecurity Leaders. Like speed dating, our goal is to capture the hearts of CISOs with intriguing, unique insight in a rapid format for security professionals pressed for time.

Varonis is proud to be named a Leader in the GigaOm Radar for Data Security Platforms for the second year in a row. As data volumes grow, environments become more complex, and AI introduces data risk, enterprises increasingly turn to Data Security Platforms.

Welcome to Speed Data: Quick Conversations With Cybersecurity Leaders. Like speed dating, our goal is to capture the hearts of CISOs with intriguing, unique insight in a rapid format for security professionals pressed for time.

Labeling files can be an effective way to protect data. Enterprises rely heavily on sensitivity labels to enforce DLP policies, apply encryption, and broadly prevent data leaks.

Databases and data warehouses store vast amounts of sensitive information, making them prime targets for attackers. One of the most effective strategies to mitigate exposure risks and lock down data is data masking, which enables organizations to protect their data by obfuscating it or replacing it with dummy data, rendering it useless to unauthorized users.

Data Security Platforms (DSP) enable organizations to protect data from being stolen, improperly distributed, and accessed by the wrong parties. Many DSPs govern data security by controlling permissions and labels, and restricting who can access, modify, or distribute data. These platforms identify unlabeled data and highlight users with excessive permissions, and while they help implement least-privilege principles, they usually lack a key aspect — identity.

In today’s digital world, adopting cloud technology is essential for businesses to stay competitive and agile. The cloud offers a wide array of benefits, including scalability, cost-efficiency, and access to cutting-edge technologies.

If you read the headlines this year, you might think the threat landscape is becoming more sophisticated. From state-sponsored attacks to election campaign hacks to new forms of ransomware, the threat landscape appears to be a minefield of sophisticated cyberattacks.