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Varonis Data Security Platform

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What is Varonis Data Security Platform?

Varonis 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.

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What is Varonis Data Security Platform?

Varonis 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.

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Product Details

What is Varonis Data Security Platform?

The Varonis Data Security Platform detects insider threats and cyberattacks by analyzing data, account activity, and user behavior. It is designed to prevent and limit disaster by locking down sensitive and stale data, and efficiently sustain a secure state with automation.

With it, the vendor states users will gain visibility into critical data and infrastructure, combine multiple data streams to discover security risks, and solve board-level data security problems at scale with automation.

Varonis Data Security Platform Features

  • Supported: Data Protection
  • Supported: Threat Detection & Response
  • Supported: Privacy & Compliance
  • Supported: VPN, DNS & Proxy Intelligence
  • Supported: File Analysis
  • Supported: GDPR & CCPA Classification
  • Supported: DSAR Portal
  • Supported: User Behavior Analytics
  • Supported: Email Security
  • Supported: Active Directory & Azure AD Clean-up & Monitoring
  • Supported: Compliance Reporting

Varonis Data Security Platform Integrations

  • Splunk Enterprise
  • IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
  • LogRhythm
  • Webroot Threat Intelligence
  • Cyberark Application Identity Manager
  • ArcSight
  • FireEye TAP
  • RSA
  • Boldon James
  • TITUS

Varonis Data Security Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal

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Varonis 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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Varonis Data Security Platform are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Helpful Data Structuring: Many users have found Varonis to be particularly helpful in structuring unstructured data and assisting with data classification projects. This feature has allowed them to easily organize and categorize their data, making it more manageable and accessible.

Effective Access Controls: Reviewers have praised Varonis for providing effective access controls around data, enabling them to regulate and limit who can access certain information. This has helped enhance data security and prevent unauthorized access.

Real-time Monitoring and Reporting: Several users have commended Varonis for its valuable tool for monitoring and reporting file and folder access and usage. The real-time alerting feature allows them to swiftly respond to any potential security incidents or unauthorized activities.

Challenging Implementation Process: Some users have found the implementation process to be challenging, as it can only be executed by the vendor and may come with additional charges for extra work. This has caused frustration and delays for several reviewers.

Costly Licensing Model: The licensing model of Varonis could be improved upon, as some users have expressed that additional licenses are required for additional features, leading to an increased cost of implementation. This has been a drawback for many customers trying to minimize operational expenses.

Limited Functionality of Web Interface: Some users have deemed the web interface somewhat limited in functionality, which has hindered their ability to fully utilize the platform. They have desired more robust features and capabilities from the web interface.

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August 29, 2023

Varonis is a great tool for watching over and reporting on your environment. It helps you sleep at night!

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Identifying open permissions on a file share [is] outstanding. It [Varonis Data Security Platform] can also recommend what users should have access and help clean up those file locations. It can also create the AD groups based on your naming convention. This does a great job identifying location of sensitive data (SSNs, Credit card numbers, etc...) We have used this software to lock down file locations based on the software's recommendation and then had to reverse the changes because of users getting denied access. On a positive note, the software does allow modeling and also has rollback ability.
January 27, 2022

Modern ways to secure your sensitive data

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
September 14, 2021

Data Classification is important, so select the best tool.

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Ronald Barrett
Director of Information Technology
City of Marietta, GA (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
This tool is well suited to address all of our auditing and reporting for production data. The alerting feature is outstanding and the search feature is well executed. The interface is slightly outdated and the ability to search through archive data is cumbersome. The reporting options are excellent but the report display is not designed in a way that makes it difficult to interpret the results.
May 02, 2021

A must-have file/folder auditing platform

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
For sure it is well suited for companies that need to keep track of their data and that are willing to pay for it. It does an excelent job of monitoring the file's access, with zero impact on Storage's performance. Sometimes it is not enough to be able to restore the data. Sometimes in critical incidents, managers and heads demand to know who caused it. Thanks to Varonis we were able to give them this information easily and in a short time.
February 15, 2020

Varonis Data Security Platform Monitors and Protects Your Data

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Rodney Barnhardt
Server Administrator
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry (Building Materials, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In my opinion, the Varonis Data Security Platform is excellent in any environment where monitoring and reporting on access to data are imperative. This would include most mid-size to enterprise organizations with its ability to monitor across files structures, Active Directory, email systems, and other products. There can always be an audit trail on what has happened in the organization. In these times of ransomware, having a product that can detect and alert on decreased the likelihood that an attack will be successful. While very useful, this product may not work well for smaller organizations due to the amount of the learning curve and administrative task needed. Smaller organizations tend not to have as large a staff as larger organizations, so having someone proficient in the product may be difficult.
October 15, 2019

Varonis, great value add product for Identity Access Management Teams!

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

With minimal Identity and Access Management staff, this tool has been a blessing for quick responses to questions like:

'Who has access?' 'What are the permissions on a specific shared drive folder?' 'When was the last time a folder was modified and by who?' 'Where are all the locations that contain sensitive data such as SOX systems?'

December 17, 2018

Varonis is a great product

Verified User
Executive in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for organizations the require complete monitoring of environment. If categorization and identification of data is needed, this product is best in class in my opinion. If budgets are not in place, now or in the future, this product may not be the best one to choose.
December 07, 2018

Varonis - The must have tool for Data Governance

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
  1. We use Varonis on a daily basis to provide access reports to high profile data. One example is the business office report that we send to our SBO and also we use it to monitor critical Card Holder servers to match up with our Change Control documents to see which files were changes, modified, deleted, or created.
  2. We also use it to get some great informational reports like stale data reports, big data reports, exe, mp3, mov files, broken SIDs, etc.
  3. We use it for DCF (Data Classification Framework) to scan our servers for sensitive data and to stay compliant with our audits.
  4. We also use it to identify Data Owners. Varonis makes it super simple to identify these owners and then we can email them entitlement reports confirming access and they can request to change it or you can even automate it with a product like Data privilege. One important thing that most people miss is when people transfer to different departments, sometimes these people have more permissions than they need and these type of reports being sent quarterly are to help remove unneeded access.
  5. DatAlert - We use it for instant alerting (DatAlert for high priority AD alerts, exchange alerts and now Analytic alerts).
    1. The new analytics and behavior alerts are a big addition to the product. You can now see:
      1. Mass files being encrypted (Ransomware) & Behavior Patterns of Ransomware
      2. AD Permissions, OU Changes, locked accounts, etc.
      3. Detects deletion of multiple directory service objects
      4. Detects exploitation software created or modified
      5. Detects if a brute force attack is happening locking out multiple AD accounts
      6. Detects if the host file was changed
      7. Detects if system binaries are found in unusual locations
      8. Detects if Crypto tools are installed and being used
      9. Detects if Group Policy Objects have been modified and by whom
      10. This is just a few of what their product does now!
March 17, 2017

The Onus on Varonis

PC
Philip Clarke
IT Systems/Security Manager
R&Q (Insurance, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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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