One of the very handy
features of Varonis DatAdvantage is the ability to add Notes to folders and other objects in the Work Area. An example of where we use Notes on a regular
basis is at the start of a remediation project.
We will have a standard security structure that we are going to apply
to the folders that we care about. For
example, we will make sure that there is a group with Modify privileges, a
group with Read Only privileges, and an Administrative group. If there are problems with making that change
immediately (let’s say that are number of direct user permissions or a number
of groups with List permissions) the analyst can Add a Note to the folder and
we can come back to it later to discuss with data owner and server teams.
This allows the analyst to
maintain his focus on reviewing the server security and make sure that we have
a comprehensive issues list that can be reviewed with other members of the
organization.
One thing we would like to do
is to be able to produce a list of all of folders that have Notes on them. We are typically going to use the 4f – File System
Objects List as are starting point.
However with the Notes on access
path filter there is no ability to do a binary selection on whether a
folder has a Note or not. So what we do
is create a selection that looks for vowels.
This way, if you utilize words in all of your notes then
this will produce just folders that have notes.
We typically create this once, save as a filter and then whenever you
need this functionality, just import the filter when you start building the
report.
Happy filtering!
