• 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...

• April 25, 2016
• Data Security, Insider Threats
• Shiri Margel, Guy Shtar

Ransomware-as-a-Service + Malicious Insiders = Deadly Threat

In our recent research report, we followed the infection chain and operation of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware, focusing on payments made by victims and how those payments eventually aggregate to a...