Employees have too much access to sensitive data

Lax policies and a lack of control is giving far too many employees access to sensitive data according to the latest Global Data Risk Report from data security specialist Varonis. The report, based on analysis of Data Risk Assessments conducted by Varonis in 2017 for customers and potential customers on their file systems, uncovers some startling figures, with 58 percent of organizations found to have more than 100,000 folders open to all employees. In an average company the report finds 21 percent of all folders are open to everyone. In addition 41 percent have at least 1,000 sensitive files open… [Continue Reading]