SUPPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES 1-877-292-8767 SEARCH SOLUTIONS PLATFORM COMPANY RESOURCES PARTNERS SEE A QUICK DEMO 2019 VARONIS GLOBAL DATA RISK REPORT 53% of companies found over 1,000 sensitive files open to every employee. The report shines a light on security issues that put organizations at risk from data breaches, insider threats and crippling malware attacks. DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT DATA GETS PERSONAL Your files called. They want their privacy back. Every year, Varonis performs thousands of Data Risk Assessments for organizations that want to understand where sensitive and classified data reside in their growing hybrid environments, learn how much of it is overexposed and vulnerable, and receive recommendations to reduce their risk profile. In our 2019 report, we analyzed 785 Data Risk Assessments and over 54 billion files – a nearly tenfold increase over the 6.2 billion files analyzed in our 2018 report. 01 Scope How much data are we talking here? 785 ORGANIZATIONS 54 BILLION FILES 4.3 BILLION FOLDERS 54.58 PETABYTES OF DATA 1.46 MILLION FILES PER TB 30+ INDUSTRIES Including financial services; healthcare, pharma and biotech; manufacturing; retail; energy and utilities; technology; government (local, state, and national) and defense; and education. 02 Risk & Exposure Privacy by Design? Not so much Overexposed data is a common security vulnerability. IT professionals estimate it takes about 6-8 hours per folder to locate and manually remove global access groups to identify users that need access, create and apply new groups, and subsequently populate them with the right users. 22% OF ALL FOLDERS in a company were open to every employee (up from 21% last year) 53% OF COMPANIES found over 1,000 sensitive files open to every employee 15% OF COMPANIES found more than 1 million folders accessible to every employee 03 Stale Data Right To Be Forgotten: What Was That Again? Despite the May 2018 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), companies continue to amass sensitive data that’s no longer needed for business. The vast majority of companies have stale sensitive files, and the problem is only getting worse. 87% OF COMPANIES found over 1,000 stale sensitive files 71% OF COMPANIES found over 5,000 stale sensitive files 53% OF ALL DATA in a company is stale 72% OF FOLDERS in a company contain stale data 04 Passwords & Users Passwords: Check Expiration Date Before Consuming Data Very few (if any) accounts should have passwords that never expire. Users with non-expiring passwords give attackers a large window to crack them using brute force. Once breached, they provide indefinite access to data. Passwords that aren’t periodically changed are more likely to appear in breached password dumps. When attackers find administrative accounts with non-expiring passwords, it’s their lucky day. 38% OF USERS had passwords that never expire (up from 10% last year) 61% OF COMPANIES have over 500 users with passwords that will never expire 50% OF USER ACCOUNTS are stale or inactive 40% OF COMPANIES have over 1,000 stale, but enabled, user accounts Want to see what’s hiding in your data? Get a highly customized data risk assessment run by engineers who are obsessed with data security. SCHEDULE NOW VARONIS Français Deutsch 日本語 Pусский Español Português SOLUTIONS Data Protection Threat Detection & Response Compliance Data Classification Ransomware Insider Threats External Threats PLATFORM How It Works How to Buy How to Use It Real Results ROI Integrations COMPANY About Varonis Careers Customers Investor Relations Corporate Responsibility Brand Contact Us RESOURCES Free Security Training Get Varonis Certified Analyst Reports Whitepapers Guides Videos Events PARTNERS Technology Partners Channel Partners Partner Portal © 2021 Varonis | Policies | Certifications     This site uses cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. Further information may be found in the Varonis Site Privacy Policy Accept