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).

  • Publication number: 20180089184
    Abstract: A method for indexing objects in a computerized system having an index, comprising identifying in the computerized system an at least one indexed object that meets an at least one criterion related to contents of the at least one indexed object, detecting an at least one non-indexed object having a property similar to an at least one property of the at least one indexed object that was identified, and indexing the at least one non-indexed object in the index, wherein the method is performed by the computerized system, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR
  • Patent number: 9912672
    Abstract: A system for operating an enterprise computer network including multiple network objects, said system comprising monitoring and collection functionality for obtaining continuously updated information regarding at least one of access permissions and actual usage of said network objects, and entitlement review by owner functionality operative to present to at least one owner of at least one network object a visually sensible indication of authorization status including a specific indication of users which were not yet authorized by said at least one owner of said at least one network object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Patent number: 9904685
    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: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ohad Korkus, Yakov Faitelson, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Patent number: 9892139
    Abstract: A method for distributing indexing of objects for an enterprise, comprising providing by a computer to an indexing server of an enterprise index entries respective to at least one object of the computer that was indexed in the computer, thereby updating an index of the indexing server of the enterprise with respect to the at least one object of the computer, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Publication number: 20180026989
    Abstract: A system including a processor and a non-transitory, tangible computer-readable medium in which computer program instructions are stored, which instructions, when read by a computer, cause the computer to process access permission type-specific access permission requests from enterprise users in an enterprise, the system including access permission type-specific access permission request receiving functionality operable for receiving at least one request for at least one access permission type-specific access permission of at least one user to at least one data element in the enterprise, and access permission type-specific access permission request output providing functionality operable for employing information pertaining to ones of the enterprise users having similarities to the at least one user with respect to at least the access permission type-specific access permission to the data elements in order to provide an output indication of perceived appropriateness of grant of the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR, David BASS
  • Patent number: 9870480
    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: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Patent number: 9846701
    Abstract: A computerized method for managing collaboration in a computerized system, comprising repeatedly applying any one of rules defined in the computerized system pertaining to objects of the computerized system, wherein the any one of the rules comprises an at least one condition concerning collaborativity of an object to which the any one of the rules pertains and the at least one condition is based on metadata of the object, by evaluating any one of conditions in the any one of the rules, thereby determining collaborativity of any one of the objects to which the any one of the rules pertains, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 9842111
    Abstract: A method for indexing objects in a computerized system having an index, comprising identifying in the computerized system an at least one indexed object that meets an at least one criterion related to contents of the at least one indexed object, detecting an at least one non-indexed object having a property similar to an at least one property of the at least one indexed object that was identified, and indexing the at least one non-indexed object in the index, wherein the method is performed by the computerized system, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 9734212
    Abstract: A method for a secure search in a computerized system having a storage, comprising searching for objects in the storage of the computerized system according to search criteria provided by a user wherein the criteria comprise at least one attribute of the objects, identifying objects that meet the criteria and displaying representations respective of identified objects that are accessible to the user, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Publication number: 20170220686
    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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR
  • Publication number: 20170223025
    Abstract: A system for operating an enterprise computer network including multiple network objects, said system comprising monitoring and collection functionality for obtaining continuously updated information regarding at least one of access permissions and actual usage of said network objects, and entitlement review by owner functionality operative to present to at least one owner of at least one network object a visually sensible indication of authorization status including a specific indication of users which were not yet authorized by said at least one owner of said at least one network object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR, David BASS
  • Patent number: 9721115
    Abstract: A method for automatic folder ownership assignment, including ascertaining which first folders, among a first multiplicity of folders, have at least one of modify and write permissions to non-IT administration entities, adding the first folders to a list of candidates for ownership assignment, defining a second multiplicity of folders which is a subset of the first multiplicity of folders and not including the first folders and descendents and ancestors thereof, ascertaining which second folders among the second multiplicity of folders, have permissions to non-IT administration entities, adding the second folders to the candidates, defining a third multiplicity of folders, which is a subset of the second multiplicity of folders and not including the second folders and descendents and ancestors thereof, ascertaining which third folders among the third multiplicity of folders are topmost folders, adding the third folders to the candidates, and recommending possible assignment of ownership of the candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 9721114
    Abstract: A method for automatic folder ownership assignment, including ascertaining which first folders, among a first multiplicity of folders, have at least one of modify and write permissions to non-IT administration entities, adding the first folders to a list of candidates for ownership assignment, defining a second multiplicity of folders which is a subset of the first multiplicity of folders and not including the first folders and descendents and ancestors thereof, ascertaining which second folders among the second multiplicity of folders, have permissions to non-IT administration entities, adding the second folders to the candidates, defining a third multiplicity of folders, which is a subset of the second multiplicity of folders and not including the second folders and descendents and ancestors thereof, ascertaining which third folders among the third multiplicity of folders are topmost folders, adding the third folders to the candidates, and recommending possible assignment of ownership of the candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Patent number: 9712475
    Abstract: An enterprise email governance system including an enterprise-wide email communication item events monitoring subsystem providing at least near real time indications of email communication item events and an enterprise-wide email communication item events storage subsystem receiving inputs from the monitoring subsystem and providing at least near real time user accessibility to the email communication item events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ohad Korkus, Yakov Faitelson, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Patent number: 9680839
    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: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, Yzhar Keysar
  • Patent number: 9679148
    Abstract: In a hierarchical access permissions environment, a method for enabling efficient management of project-wise permissions including maintaining project-wise lists of network objects, access permissions to which cannot be managed together via a hierarchical folder structure and employing the project-wise lists of network objects to make project-wise changes in access permissions to the network objects without the need to individually modify access permissions to individual ones of the network objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Publication number: 20170147832
    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: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, David BASS, Yzhar KAYSAR, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR
  • Patent number: 9660997
    Abstract: A system for operating an enterprise computer network including multiple network objects, said system comprising monitoring and collection functionality for obtaining continuously updated information regarding at least one of access permissions and actual usage of said network objects, and entitlement review by owner functionality operative to present to at least one owner of at least one network object a visually sensible indication of authorization status including a specific indication of users which were not yet authorized by said at least one owner of said at least one network object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Patent number: 9621558
    Abstract: A computerized method for obtaining collaboration with an object of a computerized system, comprising receiving at an owner party that owns the object a request from a requesting party employing a requesting mechanism of the computerized system to collaborate the object with a recipient party, providing by the owner party a decision to the recipient party whether to grant the recipient party to collaborate with the object, and registering, in a data construct of the computerized system, data comprising a status indicative of the decision, thereby providing for the computerized system to determine whether to allow the recipient party to collaborate with the object, wherein the method is performed on an at least one computer of the computerized system configured to perform the method, and an apparatus for performing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Faitelson, Ohad Korkus, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir
  • Publication number: 20170098091
    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: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Yakov FAITELSON, Ohad KORKUS, Ophir KRETZER-KATZIR, Yzhar KEYSAR