Varonis Helps the City of San Diego Stop Hundreds of Thousands of Breaches Daily
March 07 2017 - 8:00AM
Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNS), a leading provider of
software solutions that protect data from insider threats and
cyberattacks, today released details on its role in helping the
City of San Diego address hundreds of thousands of daily
cybersecurity threats.
Gary Hayslip, hired by the City of San Diego as its
first CISO in 2013, has been involved with cybersecurity for nearly
30 years and co-authored the book, "The CISO Desk Reference Guide."
In his current role, he is responsible for the development
and implementation of the city’s information security strategies,
policies, procedures and internal controls. For a city of more than
1.3 million people, Hayslip advises the city's executive leadership
and protects a network that blocks about half a million
cyber-attacks a day.
After a careful evaluation, the City of San Diego
chose to implement the data security platform from Varonis, which
includes Data Classification Framework, DatAdvantage for
Windows and Directory Services and DatAlert solutions.
Hayslip said, “The more I began to examine the
cybersecurity landscape, the more I realized that the traditional
perimeter security strategy was inadequate for the threats we
currently face today. In my present enterprise environment, we
don’t have one network. We have 24 networks, with about 40,000
endpoints spread across the county, and we have employees on mobile
devices like smart phones and laptops in the field. It’s this
disparate view that brought me to the conclusion I needed to move
security from the edge down to the data level, where my data flows
are at, and actually start tracking who's accessing it and what's
being done with it.”
Ransomware
Hayslip continued, “We have 14,000 desktops, in
everything from police cars to trash trucks, sitting in city
buildings or laptops out in the field, and they get phishing
emails. In the last year, we’ve gone from averaging five ransomware
attacks a month to now around 10-15 times a day – all because
someone clicks on something they shouldn’t have. The growth in
malicious activity is largely due to the fact that ransomware makes
cyber criminals money. Varonis DatAlert helps us to identify and
stop these breaches. It helps us better understand if the
ransomware was successful and whether it reached any of our share
drives. We need this context so we can respond quickly and stop it
from expanding and destroying folders.”
Data Security and Lifecycle
Governance
“We process everything from credit card payments to
trading municipal bonds. There are several different regulatory
verticals that our data, accounts and business practices fall into,
and I wanted to build a data security platform to look at all the
various types of data the city has, who is accessing it and the
practices we have for processing it. Varonis is that platform for
us.”
Hayslip added, “As we started using Varonis,
particularly the Data Classification Framework and DatAdvantage for
auditing and protection, we were able to see data that was stale
and hadn’t been touched in years. The interesting thing about
cities is that if a technology works they will keep that technology
and its data forever. Unfortunately, that can mean cities won’t
innovate and try a new technology unless the old one breaks or they
are forced to change. Currently, we estimate we have more than five
petabytes of data – copies of copies of copies of copies. We
estimate that we can probably reduce that amount by about 30%
through understanding how our data is used and identifying what we
truly need for operations. One of the most valuable things that
Varonis has been able to do for us is to identify stale data that
isn’t needed for business operations. We’re able to store it in
less expensive facilities and remove unnecessary duplicates,
freeing up a lot of critical space and saving money.”
Additional Resources
- Read the complete City of San Diego case study here.
- For more information on Varonis' solution portfolio,
please visit www.varonis.com.
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About VaronisVaronis is a leading
provider of software solutions that protect data from insider
threats and cyberattacks. Through an innovative software platform,
Varonis allows organizations to analyze, secure, manage, and
migrate their volumes of unstructured data. Varonis specializes in
file and email systems that store valuable spreadsheets, word
processing documents, presentations, audio and video files, emails,
and text. This rapidly growing data often contains an enterprise's
financial information, product plans, strategic initiatives,
intellectual property, and confidential employee, customer or
patient records. IT and business personnel deploy Varonis software
for a variety of use cases, including data security, governance and
compliance, user behavior analytics, archiving, search, and file
synchronization and sharing. With offices and partners worldwide,
Varonis had approximately 5,350 customers as of December 31, 2016,
spanning leading firms in financial services, healthcare, public,
industrial, insurance, energy and utilities, media and
entertainment, consumer and retail, technology and education
sectors.
News Media Contact:
Jennifer LuPiba
614-338-9889
Email: jlupiba@varonis.com
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