SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) vs Varonis Data Security Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe Solarwinds [Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is best designed for SMB. We looked at the leaders in Identity Access Management and were quoted big numbers and long timelines. We needed to have something up a running in a couple months without breaking the bank. This fit the bill and met most of the audit requests.

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Vice-President in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Data Governance is well suited to areas where there is a requirement to control user access and privileges to unorganised data, if an organisation is taking on the challenge of a data classification project then this is a great tool for finding out what data is out in the organisation. Some additional modules allow information owners and approvers to authorise user access through a web portal cutting down on a manual process and lets profile administration be auditable.

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Philip Clarke

IT Systems/Security Manager

R&QInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Pros

Easy to use, drag and drop, permission change with every change made logged
Generating automated Reports for Dataowners to review
Log all activity on the File server in case of Breaches or Viruses

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Technician in Information Technology

Furniture Company, 501-1000 employees

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Monitors and reports file and folder access and usage.
Provides for assigned folder owners who can receive reports and manage access themselves.

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Rodney Barnhardt

Server Administrator

Charlotte Pipe and FoundryBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Data owner management (reports from data owner changes).
Exchange access reports
Recertification overview for admins (which was not recertified until now).
More webinars needed to get all the function and to get more out of the product.

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Manager in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation could have been a little smoother with more help from the Varonis sales team, but we managed
Tying it into some 3rd party systems could be more intuitive
Navigating the built in rules and patterns was a little clunky, but we worked through them

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) 9.1

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Everything said earlier

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

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Varonis Data Security Platform 8.0

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I wish the cost was a little bit lower and increase functionality and features would give it 10/10.

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Gus Awad

Senior Systems Engineer

BELLA + CANVASRetail, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

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Varonis Data Security Platform 9.3

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Support has always been very responsive and addressed any issues we may have had in the past. Some local engineers are willing to come onsite or work over a web session to discuss creating a new rule set or look at some issues. Getting issues address has never been a problem. There was one feature we had trouble getting to function correctly, but support and local engineers were willing to work with us as much as needed to get it working correctly for our organization.

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Rodney Barnhardt

Server Administrator

Charlotte Pipe and FoundryBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

There's actually very few enterprise level products out there providing the coverage that ARM does. We have never previously purchased or really tried any other solutions. We looked at PRTG AD Manager and ManageEngine AD, but we find PRTG products difficult and ManageEngine products seem to be very glitchy. As we're a SolarWinds customer already, it made sense to invest in this product and roll it into our Orion suite.

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Rob Bates

Public & Private Cloud 4th Line Senior Engineer

CreditsafeFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees

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At the time of our purchase Stealth Bits did not have the same functionality that we initially wanted, so Varonis was the better option and across the available modules again Varonis could cover more future use areas. As of now Stealth Bits has really caught up and as they do not operate an agent logic of data capture can be a lot easier and quicker to install.

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Philip Clarke

IT Systems/Security Manager

R&QInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Significantly cut administration time of Permissions on file server
Being able to prove who has made changes helped us out a lot
No negatives yet

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Technician in Information Technology

Furniture Company, 501-1000 employees

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Put our organization within compliance with regulations, which saves us possible fines
Put our organization in a better position to handle audits and save on audit fees, since audit reports are quick and easy to run

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Verified User

Executive in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) vs Varonis Data Security Platform