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Too many organizations are sitting on sprawling file systems where access is poorly understood, permissions are broken, and data that hasn't been touched in years is creating risk. Over-permissioned folders invite insider threats. Open access exposes sensitive data to anyone on the network. And stale files that nobody owns are a liability waiting to be exploited. NetRix Access Analyzer gives you the complete picture who has access, how they got it, and what's been sitting untouched for years. So you can remediate excessive access before it becomes a liability. Let's start with the share audit report in NetRix Access Analyzer. For the finance share, we can see exactly who has access at the share level. Creator owner, system, specific users, administrator groups, and domain users, with their permission levels and access types all laid out clearly. Scrolling down to expanded permissions, we get the full picture across every folder and subfolder. 420 rows showing exactly who can access what, whether access was granted directly or inherited, and the precise permission level for each trustee. And below that, the broken inheritance section surfaces 3,111 folders where child permissions deviate from the parent. The hidden access mismatches that accumulate over time and create the gaps attackers look for. The report dropdown gives you eight pre-built access intelligence reports. Let's navigate to open access, one of the most critical views for any security team. Immediately, we can see that 491 folders across three hosts and six shares are openly accessible to everyone, with two of those folders containing sensitive data. The exposed sensitive data wheel shows 29 distinct data types sitting in open folders. PHI, passwords, passports, and GDPR-restricted data. The folders with open access tables shows the exact paths so your team can act immediately. Now let's move to the content section. Under empty shares, we can see shares that exist but contain nothing, wasted attack surface that should be cleaned up. The content dropdown reveals four report types, empty shares, nested shares, stale content, and largest shares. Let's go to stale content, and this is where the story gets serious. Filtered to files not accessed in the last 365 days, we can see 2,958 stale files that contain sensitive data spread across 10 stale shares, narrowing to 180 days. The picture sharpens further, 0.37 terabytes of data, 26 stale shares, and 85% of total storage sitting completely untouched. Files by last accessed shows data going all the way back to 2017. Most stale shares ranks where the problem is worst, and the stale data detail table shows exactly which files haven't been touched, their size, their last access date, their category, and whether they contain sensitive data. Large image files, clinical research data, financial records, all creating unnecessary risk. With NetRix Access Analyzer, you know exactly who has access to what, where permissions are broken, and which data has been forgotten but not gone, so you can reduce your attack surface before attackers exploit it.
