4 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FUTURE OF FILE SHARING
Have you been in this movie? You’ve been working for two months on a big project to analyze widgets — sales, marketing effectiveness, whatever. The first real deliverable is a presentation. A few...
View ArticleAuthentication Lessons from the Magic Kingdom: A Closer Look at Kerberos, Part I
The flaws in NTLM I’ve been writing about might lead you to believe that highly-secure authentication in a distributed environment is beyond the reach of mankind. Thankfully, resistance against hackers...
View ArticleTHREE THINGS TO BE AWARE OF WITH LOW-COST DATA BACKUP SERVICES
I’m always a little surprised by the reaction from customers regarding off-site storage services. It goes something like, “Well, the price is so good, that I don’t really need to know anything else.”...
View ArticleTHE BIG DATA EXPLOSION
Steve Fingerhut is a VP of Marketing at SanDisk. In his inaugural guest blog post for the Metadata Era, Steve discusses how enhancing existing server investments with solid-state memory can speed up...
View ArticleWHAT’S YOUR REPUTATION WORTH?
During this past year, we’ve been reminded (too) many times that data breaches are costly and damaging to a company’s reputation. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2014 Cost of Data Breach Study,...
View ArticleGETTING READY FOR PCI DSS 3.0 AND BEYOND: A NEW FOCUS ON TESTING
To get a sense of where the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) is heading, it helps to take a look beyond the actual language in the requirements. In August, PCI published a DSS 3.0 best practices...
View ArticleTOP 5 REASONS WHY ORGANIZATIONS WANT A DROPBOX ALTERNATIVE
During a recent visit to Brazil, I encountered many customers and partners who faced a similar challenge – providing their clients with a safe, secure and genuinely easy way to share files and...
View ArticleHOW VARONIS HELPS WITH LEGAL HOLD
Background A legal hold is a written directive issued by attorneys instructing clients to preserve relevant evidence – such as paper documents and electronically stored information – in an anticipated...
View ArticleINTERVIEW WITH NYU-POLY’S PROFESSOR JUSTIN CAPPOS: SECURITY LESSONS FROM...
Great article from the guys at Varonis I had the chance to talk with cyber security expert Justin Cappos last month about the recent breaches in the retail sector. Cappos is an Assistant Professor of...
View ArticlePRIVACY PREDICTIONS 2025!
After posting our IT predictions for next year, we decided to assign ourselves an even more challenging task. Using recent headlines from the tech press as a baseline, we tried to extrapolate ahead to...
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