One set of permissions. Correct, current, and enforced everywhere.

What does the work

Five things need to be true before access is truly governed.

Remediation is the center of access governance but it is not all of it. You also have to know who actually uses what, hold a boundary that permission sprawl cannot get around, notice credentials being abused in real time, and keep the AI you deploy inside the same rules.

Fix what is wrong

Remediation, not another report.

Panzura Symphony is a separate platform, by design. Because it is infrastructure-agnostic, the clean-up runs on NetApp, Isilon and the rest of the estate whether or not you plan to move your data.

• Broken permission inheritance repaired automatically at the source

• Permission scanning and broken inheritance correction can be automated as frequently as required

• Reporting you can use to prove compliance

Know Who Uses It

Entitlement is not the same as access.

Revoke the wrong permissions and you break a workflow, so teams often revert to changing nothing. Panzura Data Services closes that gap. File activity audit shows who or what actually touched a file, when, and from where, so you can refine permissions and know it is safe.

• File activity audit across every location, one record

• Estate-wide search, and audit streamed to your SIEM and compliance platform from a single feed

Hold a boundary regardless

A boundary valid permissions cannot bypass.

Panzura CloudFS enforces geofencing at the node level—completely independent of Active Directory permissions or file system layout. If a file is inside a boundary, it stays there, even if an inherited permission would have allowed access or credentials are technically valid from the wrong location.

• Boundaries, geographic or functional, enforced across SMB, NFS and S3 at once

• Immutable version history, so the access record cannot be deliberately or accidentally altered

Notice Abuse in Progress

Remediation shrinks the target but the risk remains.

74% of breaches involve privileged credential abuse, which means a correctly permissioned account is still the likeliest route for bad actors. Threat Control for CloudFS builds a behavioral fingerprint for every user, so aberrant activity — mass encryption, mass deletion, bulk access, exfiltration — surfaces in real time and can be disabled automatically.

• Per-user baselines rather than signatures, so deviation is measured against that user

• Compromised accounts can be disabled and affected areas quarantined without waiting for a human to read an alert

Permission Fidelity in Copilot

File permissions carry through to Copilot AI and agents.

Panzura Nexus enforces the existing file permissions on every Microsoft 365 Copilot query rather than maintaining a separate AI access policy. There is no second set of rules to govern, review and keep aligned — which matters because access governance should mean one policy is all that's needed.

• If a person cannot open a file, they cannot reach it through AI

• Revocation takes effect on the next request rather than the next crawl

If it is about exposure

A compromised account has its own blast radius.

Permission remediation is a control that shrinks the blast radius before an incident. Most of the rest of the security stack is typically focused on detection or recovery — and excess access is where risk often starts, whether a malicious insider or the credential was stolen.

If it is about regulators

Where your data may go is a separate obligation.

Access governance says who may reach a file. Residency and jurisdictional control say where it may be opened from and where it may be kept, and classification says what you are holding in the first place.

If it is about people working

Nobody can collaborate on what they cannot open.

Inherited permissions block teams as often as they expose data. A new office through acquisition, a separate worksite, or a growing team can make it a real challenge to collaborate because correct access to files matters as much as the underlying storage.