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Corporate Espionage: Hacking A Company Through A Chinese Restaurant Takeout Menu

Corporate espionage (industrial espionage) is a favorite topic of mine. I have written and presented on the subject quite a bit and, while I am never sure how my readers react when I write about this, I do carefully watch the look on my audience members’ faces when I first mention the issue. The story their eyes tell is interesting.

The story of “why should I care about this?”

At first…

Varonis DatAdvantage Delivers Vital Intelligence to Keep ING DIRECT Secure

Responsible for over 1.4 million customers, ING DIRECT chose Varonis to ensure its systems are secure and that customers’ interests are protected at all times.

With Varonis DatAdvantage, the bank is now able to monitor who is accessing and changing records to guarantee that all actions are authorized. It also allows ING DIRECT to visualize and manage permissions, which helps to meet regulatory…

The basis of any modern security system is authentication—ensuring someone is who they say they are. 

By far, the most prevalent means of authentication in use today was invented in the 1960s: the username and password. In the ensuing five decades, so much has changed: computers aren’t kept in glassed off rooms, hard drives aren’t the size of a Frigidaire, and nobody refers to anything in…

More from our Tips interviews with working IT professionals.  

Tell me about your environment—how many users, how much data, etc.?

 A: We have over 600 users and 15TB of shared CIFS data. We have a single domain that contains over 1000 security groups.

Th…