• March 5, 2018
• Insider Threats
• Shiri Margel, Amit Leibovitz

Hunting for Insider Threats: Using Activity Modeling to Detect Suspicious Database Commands and Access Patterns

The Widening Gap Data breaches by insiders are very challenging to catch. The gap between the rise of insider threats and speed of hunting them down is increasingly widening. According...

• October 25, 2017
• Data Security
• Shiri Margel

Detecting Data Breaches: Why Understanding Database Types Matters

Different data characteristics and access patterns found in different database systems lead to different ways of detecting suspicious data access, which are indicators of potential data breaches. To accurately detect...

• July 31, 2017
• Data Security, Insider Threats
• Shiri Margel, Guy Shtar

Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction: Understanding the “Magic” Behind Machine Learning

These days we hear about machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in all aspects of life. We see machines that learn and imitate the human brain in order to automate...

• June 20, 2017
• Data Security, Insider Threats, Research
• Larissa Gaston, Shiri Margel, Guy Shtar

Today’s File Security is So ’80s, Part 3: Dynamic Peer Groups – 3 Examples from Customer Data

In the first two parts of this series, we discussed why permissions management, the traditional approach to file security, no longer works and introduced a new approach to file security...

• June 12, 2017
• Data Security, Insider Threats, Research
• Larissa Gaston, Shiri Margel, Guy Shtar

Today’s File Security is So ‘80s, Part 2: Detect Suspicious File Access with Dynamic Peer Groups

In a previous post, we shared three primary reasons why the traditional, static approach to file security no longer works for today’s modern enterprises. Working groups are formed organically and...

• June 5, 2017
• Data Security, Insider Threats, Research
• Larissa Gaston, Shiri Margel, Guy Shtar

Today’s File Security is So ’80s, Part 1: Why the Traditional Approach to File Security is Broken

In today’s knowledge-driven economy, modern enterprises have a fluid organizational structure in which most employees have access to most data to do their jobs. Working groups are formed organically and...