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• July 31, 2007 IT Jungle

  Varonis Prevents Unauthorized Access to Unstructured Data

  by Alex Woodie

  You have probably witnessed the problem: terabytes of unstructured data, in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PDFs, and image files, piling up on Windows servers, IFS servers, and file shares. Microsoft made it easy to store and share these files, but it failed to create an automated method for controlling access to these files. That's not good when the files contain sensitive data like social security numbers. So Varonis developed a product that gives employees access only to the data they need to do their jobs...