IS YOUR UNSTRUCTURED DATA READY FOR IAM? - Varonis

IS YOUR UNSTRUCTURED DATA READY FOR IAM?

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IS YOUR UNSTRUCTURED DATA READY FOR IAM? 3 THE ISSUES7 THE SOLUTION11

CONCLUSION17 ABOUT VARONIS 18

Is Your Unstructured Data Ready for IAM?

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IS YOUR UNSTRUCTURED DATA READY FOR IAM?

Controlling unstructured data using IAM or other technologies has become a critical objective for many organizations, as they realize that information is a sort of currency, and needs to be subject to the same controls as any other asset: it must have an identified owner or steward, access controls, access records, and reporting on these components.

By involving data owners and automating data-owner involvement through IAM (Identity and Access Management) solutions, organizations can reduce risk, increase efficiency and simplify compliance ? all at the same time. However, while many organizations have successfully automated owner involvement for applications and groups with IAM, they struggle to incorporate unstructured file systems into their IAM environments.

Is Your Unstructured Data Ready for IAM?

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How do you know whether your file systems are ready to be brought into the IAM fold?

FIRST, SEE IF YOU CAN ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS: ? How many terabytes of unstructured data do you have?

? How many uniquely permissioned folders do you have?

? How many folders have inconsistent (incorrectly inheriting) permissions?

? How many folders are open to everyone in the company (through groups like everyone, domain users, authenticated users, etc.)?

? How much of your unstructured data is active?

? How would you prioritize which data to bring into IAM?

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If you can't answer these questions, here's some good news ? you can find out for free. See how, here.

If you can answer these questions, you probably already know the bad news ? most unstructured data needs some serious TLC before it can be managed in an IAM solution.

HERE ARE SOME AVERAGES BASED ON A RISK ASSESSMENTS PERFORMED AT OVER 100 ORGANIZATIONS:

84,081 ? Organizations averaged

folders per TB

12% ?

of a company's folders were uniquely

permissioned ? over 10,000 folders per terabyte

45% ?

of companies had over 2,000 folders with

inconsistent inheritance

21% ?

of folders were accessible to every employee

54% ?

of an organization's data was stale

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