Patents by Inventor Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR

Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10346361
    Abstract: A method of controlling file access events in a computerized server, including receiving by a computer acting as a server and connected to a network of computer platforms, information of file access events intercepted by the computer platforms, accessing rules for processing file access events, retrieving auxiliary data disjoint of the event, and processing the event by the server based on the rule and the auxiliary data to determine an action for handling the event for the computer platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 10318751
    Abstract: A system for automatically replacing a user security group-based computer security policy by a computer security policy based at least partially on actual access, including a learned access permissions subsystem operative to learn current access permissions of users to network objects in an enterprise computer environment and to provide an indication of which users are members of which user security groups having access permissions to which network objects, a learned actual access subsystem operative to learn actual access history of users in the enterprise to the network objects and to provide indications of which users have had actual access to which network objects, and a computer security policy administration subsystem, receiving indications from the learned access permission subsystem and the learned actual access subsystem and being operative to automatically replace pre-selected user-security group-based access permissions with at least partially actual access-based access permissions without disrupti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Patent number: 10296596
    Abstract: A method for characterizing data elements in an enterprise including ascertaining at least one of an access metric and a data identifier for each of a plurality of data elements and employing the at least one of an access metric and a data identifier to automatically apply a metatag to ones of the plurality of data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Publication number: 20190103969
    Abstract: A system for preventing an excess user authentication token utilization condition in an enterprise computer environment, the system including an excess user authentication token utilization condition predictor operable for calculating a number of additional group memberships of each of the enterprise users that can be expected to result in an excess user authentication token utilization condition, a group membership estimator operable, for each the enterprise user, for estimating a number of additional group memberships of the enterprise user that will be created by an anticipated activity, and an anticipated excess user authentication token utilization condition alerter operable, before initiation of the anticipated activity, for providing an alert if the anticipated activity can be expected to result in an excess user authentication token utilization condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR
  • Patent number: 10242110
    Abstract: A method for filtering-out results of a search, comprising obtaining representations of objects of a computerized system identified in the computerized system in a search conducted in the a computerized system by a party, and responsive to the search, applying by the computerized system an at least one condition constructed in the computerized system and related to access of the party with respect to the objects, thereby filtering-out the representations of the objects that correspondingly comply with the at least one condition, and an apparatus configured to carry out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 10229191
    Abstract: A system for identifying data of interest from among a multiplicity of data elements residing on multiple platforms in an enterprise, the system including background data characterization functionality characterizing the data of interest at least by at least one content characteristic thereof and at least one access metric thereof, the at least one access metric being selected from data access permissions and actual data access history and near real time data matching functionality selecting the data of interest by considering only data elements which have the at least one content characteristic thereof and the at least one access metric thereof from among the multiplicity of data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, David Bass, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 10181046
    Abstract: An enterprise level data element review system including a data access event collection subsystem operative to collect data access event notifications relating to ones of a multiplicity of data elements, a data element metadata modification subassembly receiving an output from the data access event collection subsystem and providing a script indicating which data elements have had a metadata modification over a given period of time, and a data element dancer operative to collect at least one of metadata and access permissions for a plurality of data elements which is substantially less than the multiplicity of data elements and is selected on the basis of the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, David Bass, Yzhar Kaysar, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 10176185
    Abstract: A system for identifying data of interest from among a multiplicity of data elements residing on multiple platforms in an enterprise, the system including background data characterization functionality characterizing the data of interest at least by at least one content characteristic thereof and at least one access metric thereof, the at least one access metric being selected from data access permissions and actual data access history and near real time data matching functionality selecting the data of interest by considering only data elements which have the at least one content characteristic thereof and the at least one access metric thereof from among the multiplicity of data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ohad Korkus, Yakov Faitelson, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Publication number: 20190007413
    Abstract: An access permissions management system including a hierarchical access permissions repository including access permissions relating to data elements arranged in a data element hierarchy, wherein some of the data elements have only access permissions which are inherited from ancestral data elements, some of the multiplicity of data elements are prevented from having inherited access permissions and thus have only unique access permissions which are not inherited and some of the data elements are not prevented from having inherited access permissions and have not only inherited access permissions but also unique access permissions which are not inherited, some of which unique access permissions possibly being redundant with inherited access permissions, and an access permissions redundancy prevention engine operative to ascertain which of the unique access permissions are redundant with inherited access permissions and not to store the unique access permissions which are redundant with inherited access permiss
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR, Yzhar KEYSAR
  • Publication number: 20180373762
    Abstract: A method for managing data in an enterprise by identifying data of interest from among a multiplicity of data elements in an enterprise, the method including characterizing data of interest at least by at least one non-content based data identifier thereof and at least one access metric thereof, the at least one access metric being selected from data access permissions and actual data access history and selecting data of interest by considering only data elements from among the multiplicity of data elements which have the at least one non-content based data identifier thereof and the at least one access metric thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR, David BASS
  • Patent number: 10152606
    Abstract: An enterprise level data element review system including a data access event collection subsystem operative to collect data access event notifications relating to ones of a multiplicity of data elements, a data element metadata modification subassembly receiving an output from the data access event collection subsystem and providing a script indicating which data elements have had a metadata modification over a given period of time, and a data element dancer operative to collect at least one of metadata and access permissions for a plurality of data elements which is substantially less than the multiplicity of data elements and is selected on the basis of the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, David Bass, Yzhar Kaysar, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 10152528
    Abstract: A method for enabling querying independently of a computerized system about objects thereof, comprising providing a computer linked to the computerized system with replications of entries of an index of the computerized system that comprise data derived from contents of the objects, where said entries correspond to a subset of objects that are identified as related objects, thereby enabling the computer, based on the provided replications, to query locally and independently of the computerized system about the related objects according to contents thereof, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Publication number: 20180329979
    Abstract: A computerized method for pooling objects in a computerized system having a storage for objects, comprising identifying in the computerized system objects having an at least one common metadata entity associated with the objects, and including the identified objects in a pool of objects, and a apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 10102389
    Abstract: An access permissions management system including a hierarchical access permissions repository including access permissions relating to data elements arranged in a data element hierarchy, wherein some of the data elements have only access permissions which are inherited from ancestral data elements, some of the multiplicity of data elements are prevented from having inherited access permissions and thus have only unique access permissions which are not inherited and some of the data elements are not prevented from having inherited access permissions and have not only inherited access permissions but also unique access permissions which are not inherited, some of which unique access permissions possibly being redundant with inherited access permissions, and an access permissions redundancy prevention engine operative to ascertain which of the unique access permissions are redundant with inherited access permissions and not to store the unique access permissions which are redundant with inherited access permiss
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, Yzhar Keysar
  • Patent number: 10061836
    Abstract: A computerized method for pooling objects in a computerized system having a storage for objects, comprising identifying in the computerized system objects having an at least one common metadata entity associated with the objects, and including the identified objects in a pool of objects, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 10037358
    Abstract: A method for managing data in an enterprise by identifying data of interest from among a multiplicity of data elements in an enterprise, the method including characterizing data of interest at least by at least one non-content based data identifier thereof and at least one access metric thereof, the at least one access metric being selected from data access permissions and actual data access history and selecting data of interest by considering only data elements from among the multiplicity of data elements which have the at least one non-content based data identifier thereof and the at least one access metric thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Publication number: 20180181635
    Abstract: A method for enabling querying independently of a computerized system about objects thereof, comprising providing a computer linked to the computerized system with replications of entries of an index of the computerized system that comprise data derived from contents of the objects, where said entries correspond to a subset of objects that are identified as related objects, thereby enabling the computer, based on the provided replications, to query locally and independently of the computerized system about the related objects according to contents thereof, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Publication number: 20180157672
    Abstract: A system for identifying data of interest from among a multiplicity of data elements residing on multiple platforms in an enterprise, the system including background data characterization functionality characterizing the data of interest at least by at least one content characteristic thereof and at least one access metric thereof, the at least one access metric being selected from data access permissions and actual data access history and near real time data matching functionality selecting the data of interest by considering only data elements which have the at least one content characteristic thereof and the at least one access metric thereof from among the multiplicity of data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Ohad KORKUS, Yakov FAITELSON, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR, David BASS
  • Publication number: 20180157861
    Abstract: A system for automatically replacing a user security group-based computer security policy by a computer security policy based at least partially on actual access, including a learned access permissions subsystem operative to learn current access permissions of users to network objects in an enterprise computer environment and to provide an indication of which users are members of which user security groups having access permissions to which network objects, a learned actual access subsystem operative to learn actual access history of users in the enterprise to the network objects and to provide indications of which users have had actual access to which network objects, and a computer security policy administration subsystem, receiving indications from the learned access permission subsystem and the learned actual access subsystem and being operative to automatically replace pre-selected user-security group-based access permissions with at least partially actual access-based access permissions without disrupti
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR, David BASS
  • Patent number: 9940376
    Abstract: A method for enabling querying independently of a computerized system about objects thereof, comprising providing a computer linked to the computerized system with replications of entries of an index of the computerized system that comprise data derived from contents of the objects, where said entries correspond to a subset of objects that are identified as related objects, thereby enabling the computer, based on the provided replications, to query locally and independently of the computerized system about the related objects according to contents thereof, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir