Stop Monitoring a Directory in Varonis

There are several types of directories that you may not want to monitor at all in Varonis DatAdvantage. These might be temporary folders that are used by products such as disk archiving solutions that have a cache directory on each Drive that is archived. This will stop all event collection and permissions monitoring for that folder and any subfolders.
Go to each drive where you believe this is an issue, click on the folder to be excluding to select it. Then right click on the folder and select the “Stop Monitoring” option.



When you select the directory a warning dialog box appears asking you to confirm your choice.

If you click “Yes” then the system stops monitoring the folder immediately.

Wireless Security and Monitoring in Government Agencies

Ericka Chickowski has posted on article on DarkReading discussing the shortfalls of wireless security across government agencies. I offered several of my thoughts to Ericka on the topic which were cited, especially mentioned the need for Network Access Control solutions. Here is the article. Here is a link to the GAO report.