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Varonis Data Security Platform vs. Zscaler Data Security

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Varonis Data Security Platform

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AVaronis offers their Data Security Platform, a modular suite of data acess and data security products providing sensitive data discovery, data access governance, unusual behavior detection, GDPR compliance support, as well as incident playbooks and cybersecurity forensic reporting.N/A

    Zscaler Data Security

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AZscaler Data Security is a cloud-delivered platform built to safeguard an organization's sensitive data. It locates sensitive data, understands its risk exposure, and secures sensitive data across the web, email, workloads, private apps, and BYOD endpoints.N/A
    Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Varonis Data Security PlatformZscaler Data Security
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    Varonis
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    Zscaler
    Chose Zscaler Data Security
    Zscaler's feature, roadmap, and LLM incorporation to bring about contextual intelligence for detections are why we selected Zscaler over Varonis.
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    Varonis Data Security PlatformZscaler Data Security
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Varonis Data Security Platform and Zscaler Data Security
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    Varonis Data Security Platform
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    Zscaler Data Security
    7.7
    13 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Data Encryption00 Ratings7.713 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Varonis Data Security PlatformZscaler Data Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (12 ratings)
    7.9
    (19 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.5
    (19 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Varonis Data Security PlatformZscaler Data Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Varonis
    The most highlighted feature of Varonis Data Security Platform is the data analyzing mechanism. It analyzes your data all the time with some special algorithms to detect any unusual activities so that it can identify any unusual behavior or users and
    take necessary action to save your sensitive data. They also offer a complete dashboard solution for their customers to control across different data stores, see their current state, and any security breaches to be addressed manually.
    Incentivized
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    Zscaler
    Great for network DLP, web, and endpoint monitoring. DSPM data discovery works well for key structured and unstructured data sources. An area for improvement is simplifying the interface into a single pane for reviewing incidents and making it part of the tooling, rather than a separate module with a fee (incident receiver).
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    Pros
    Varonis
    • Varonis logging is very robust and captures all audit events being sent from the file servers.
    • The ability to report and alert on Active Directory account events works very well with file activity monitoring. It can show the complete picture of what an account did while being used.
    • Have a customizable dashboard is great for being able to show upper management information that only pertains to them.
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    Zscaler
    • If the policy is set correctly, it identifies DLP (Data Loss Prevention).
    • Scanning zip files to find executables works really well.
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    Cons
    Varonis
    • Implementation can be challenging in some areas and can only be executed by the vendor
    • Implementation can only be executed by the vendor and additional work can be chargeable
    • Licensing can be improved upon
    • Agent based so implementation can be longer than expected
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    Zscaler
    • The DLP dictionary functions need to be expanded upon, such as matching all regex patterns with any phrases and vice versa. The only way to do this today is to create two dictionaries and then use an engine to combine them; however, this approach loses the ability to utilize proximity.
    • Regex does not support lookaheads.
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    Usability
    Varonis
    Because the tool delivers on its promises and forces us to explore each functionality. Using the tool leads us to seek more knowledge and apply it to our environment, mitigating risks, reducing the attack surface, increasing the team's technical knowledge, and boosting team growth. It also demonstrates to senior management that the tool is extremely necessary for the environment.
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    Zscaler
    Zscaler Data Protection is a complete solution for protecting your valuable data. No matter whether the data resides at your on-prem, cloud, or any workload or at the data center, Zscaler has a foolproof mechanism to protect it at any cost with zero tolerance. Also, Zscaler Data Protection has a perfect UI for deploying, managing, and maintaining our different kinds of environments. (e.g., On-Prem or Hybrid).
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    Support Rating
    Varonis
    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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    Zscaler
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    Alternatives Considered
    Varonis
    Actually, we didn't expend much time evaluating other file auditing platforms. We chose Varonis just after a serious incident and we had already heard about Varonis at a Netapp event. So it was an easy choice. We called Varonis and asked them for a PoC, that's it. The PoC became a production and it is running until this day.
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    Zscaler
    Thought about deploying zero trust cloud within our environment, but we are still in the early stages of our digital transformation projects. Still evaluating current options, but we knew Zscaler Data Security took a strict approach to data, so that's what we wanted to evaluate.
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    Return on Investment
    Varonis
    • We have identified data classifications issues that our organization was not aware of prior to the implementation.
    • The tool does take a dedicated resource for it to be effective.
    • Varonis has improved the speed with which we can fulfill audit requests, leaving us more time for other tasks.
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    Zscaler
    • It has had a positive impact on protection of intellectual property
    • It had a negative impact on us as tenant to tenant connectivity needs to get better.
    • Positive news in how it integrates with our identity provider
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