This Varonis case study details how an anonymized U.S. local government overcame significant data security challenges. Initially prioritizing data convenience, they faced issues securing folder permissions, ensuring compliance with regulations like HIPAA and PCI CJIS, and remediating over 65,000 at-risk files across 200TB, resulting in a dire security posture and compliance concerns. The Varonis cloud-native Data Security Platform provided the solution, offering continuous discovery, classification, and real-time threat detection. As a result, the government achieved a best-in-class data security posture, automating remediation of global access groups and reducing their risk of exposure by 100%. They successfully transitioned from 65,000 open, at-risk files to zero within months, gaining c

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