Gartner names Varonis “Cool Vendor” for Risk Management and Compliance
Filed under: IT management, Information Technology, SOA Governance, Uncategorized, data security
Last month, Varonis Systems Inc., a data governance solutions provider, was selected as a “Cool Vendor” in the March 2009 “Cool Vendors in Risk Management and Compliance, 2009” report by research company, Gartner Inc.
According to Varonis’ announcement,
“Varonis’ Data Governance Suite provides IT administrators and data owners with the intelligence they need to control access to valuable business data by enabling complete visibility to all file and folder access. The software automatically builds permissions management workflow policies by generating recommendations about whose access to company data should be revoked or allowed, empowering data owners to sign off on access rights to their files and mitigate the risks of data misuse. Varonis allows organizations to ensure that data is only being accessed by those with business need – something that proves to be critical as companies increasingly seek data protection to prevent insider breaches or data loss.”
The news from earlier today about the MySpace data breach is a good reminder of how important and necessary data governance solutions such as what’s offered Varonis and other companies still are.
Company Facts
Founded in 2005.
R&D office in Herzliyya, Israel.
Yaki Faitelson, CEO and Co-Founder.
Ohad Korkus, VP of Engineering, CTO and Co-Founder.
Products: Varonis Data Governance Suite (Varonis DatAdvantage and Varonis DataPrivilege).
Website: www.varonis.com
Customers: Large financial institutions, health care services organizations as well as leading energy, technology and manufacturing firms. Specific customers include, DSM, CondeNast Publications, MoMA and SanDisk.
Companies in Brief: Week of October 21 News
This past week saw big announcements from MySpace and Facebook, the U.S. market continuing to struggle and OpTier named Globes Israeli Start-up of the Year. How this will all affect technology and investments in Israel will be essential to follow in the next few months for innovations. In the meantime, review the news related to technology in Israel in this week’s Israel Innovation Companies in Brief: Week of October 21 slideshow.
For a larger version, you can go here,
VON Israel and the future of VoIP
The VON Israel telecommunications conference was held this past Sunday and Monday in Tel Aviv. Although I was unable to attend it, I have been following it in some blogs and have watched some of the speeches on PulverTV. In his keynote address, Jeff Pulver, the conference’s founder, mentioned that VoIP is the future of communications on the Internet and now is the time for companies to find the right innovations and solutions for VoIP.
In the spirit of what he said, here are examples of how I think social media areas can integrate these technologies:
Facebook- Have a special application that will let friends voice chat or video chat with each other. This would also be good for the marketplace section, especially for job seekers and potential employers, and for sales, similar to eBay having the call buttons.
MySpace- Musicians can hold special “conference calls,” or interviews, with their fans, similar to the idea of how companies have quarterly conference calls with their investors. Also, musicians can create their own TV networks and broadcast fan mail by embedding it on their MySpace page.
Flickr- While looking at pictures, you can chat with the friend or family who posted them using an application on Flickr.
For more on VON Israel, check out Jeff Pulver’s blog and if you want to view some of the speakers from VON Israel, including Pulver’s keynote, check out PulverTV. Also, if you have any ideas of your own on how social media can integrate VoIP technology, feel free to add a comment below.
UPDATE: Skype and MySpace have announced that they will integrate their chat services to add Internet voice chat to MySpace’s instant messenger and allow Skype users to contact MySpace friends through its service.
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