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...

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,...

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...

CIFS, SMB, Samba, and NFS are technologies used to network client and server systems. Learn the difference between them and which to use when.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Biometric data is at the limits of what current personal data privacy laws consider worthy of protection. This type of identifier covers fingerprints, voiceprints, and facial images. While the risk...

The key difference between attempting to assign data owners manually and attacking it intelligently with Varonis is the DatAdvantage audit trail.

Last time I talked about how cryptographic hash functions are used to scramble passwords. I also stressed why it is extremely important to not be able to take a hash...

” Password-based security mechanisms — which can be cracked, reset, and socially engineered — no longer suffice in the era of cloud computing.” If you haven’t read Gizmodo writer Mat Honan’s...