Over exposure of data leaves organizations at risk

Excessive employee permissions are exposing organizations to insider threats, ransomware and other risks according to the findings of a new report. Using its Data Security Platform, threat prevention specialist Varonis conducted over a thousand risk assessments for customers and potential customers on a subset of their file systems totaling over 236 million files and 3.79 petabytes of data. The study reveals that 47 percent of organizations have at least 1,000 sensitive files open to every employee, while 22 percent have 12,000 or more sensitive files exposed to every employee. An average of 20 percent of folders in all organizations are… [Continue Reading]