Varonis Systems, Ltd.

Ophir Kretzer

Yakov Faitelson

Ohad Korkus

Queries regarding access permissions of users and rights to directories in a complex enterprise are executed in near real-time, using lookups to tables that form a condensed database maintained for each file server. User information is condensed by arranging users in user groups having common data access rights. Directory permissions storage is condensed by showing only distinctive permissions to a directory in a table entry, and referencing inherited permissions of parent directories. The tables indicate recursive and ancestral relationships among the user groups and directories. They are developed and updated in advance of any queries. A consolidated view of the query results is presented on a single display screen. Using the tables results can be obtained without exhaustive searches of large file system tables.

Visualization of access permission status

Methods and systems are provided for controlling access to a file system. A record of actual accesses by users of the file system is maintained. Before a user is removed from a set of users or before a privilege for a set of users to access a data element is removed, it is determined whether the actual recorded accesses of the user are allowed by residual access permissions that would remain after implementing the proposed removal of access permission. An error condition is generated if the proposed removal of the access permission would have prevented at least one of the actual accesses. In another aspect of the invention, the system determines if the users would have alternate access to the storage element following implementation of the proposal.

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Reut, Israel

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