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February 14, 2020
Varonis Data Security Platform Monitors and Protects Your Data
Varonis Data Security Platform has a variety of uses. One of the best features is the ability to track and monitor file and folder access. This means that if a folder or file disappears, a report can be ran that tells whether it was moved or deleted and who performed the action. There are times folders are inadvertently moved, in the past. The only option was to restore from backup and assume it may have been deleted. This means there could be multiple copies in the wrong locations. Now, if it has been determined a something was moved, we can check and see if it was intentional, if so, why and inform other people. If it was unintentional, then we can move it back to the original location. Another great use of it is to monitor for sudden file changes that could indicate ransomware or some other attack. Some rules can be put into place that sends alerts out to various teams so an investigation can begin quickly and intercede a potential attack. The product also can monitor Active Directory and alert on changes to specific security groups, account lockouts, or changes in GPOs
- Monitors and reports file and folder access and usage.
- Provides for assigned folder owners who can receive reports and manage access themselves.
- The reports can take some time to get used to creating and running. It can take some trial and error to determine the correct rule sets to get the information you need. The information is there. It may just take some time to set it up correctly. Once you find the right settings, you can save it for use later.
- It does have a lot of different tie-in to other products, which can take some time to set up correctly. It would be good if that could be simplified.
We are currently in our 1st year of deployment and are utilizing it across our entire organization. We mainly purchased the product for tracking account activity in active directory, but have found the added malware threat detection and notifications when group policies are changed have been added benefits for our Security and Identify and Access Management teams.
- Searching for account permissions is much easier and granular with Varonis over normal AD users and computers
- Having alerting when group policies are changed has been a big security group win
- Identifying sensitive data such as PII and SOX data has also been a major win for our Organization
- 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
August 05, 2019
Varonis is a great tool to use for data security
Varonis is being used by all of the organization to search for financial data to classify them and encrypt all that data.
- Varonis accurately detects critical data on our file servers and classify them based on the type of data.
- Encrypt all data as configured to secure the data from unauthorized access.
- Alerting and reports gave us information that we did not have before.
- The web interface is somewhat limited in terms of functionality
- More licenses are required for additional features. This increases the cost to implement.
- Customized reporting is lacking.
Varonis is utilized by the information security analyst across the entire organization to address compliance of file monitoring and alerting of suspicious or high amounts of activity on file systems.
- Varonis 7 offers real time alerting which benefits the swift action of analysts.
- Multiple file servers can be monitored by Varonis without a heavy performance interaction.
- Varonis is capable of meeting several industry compliance standards.
- The Web UI could have more in-depth analysis on alerts.
- Amount of services installed is high.
- Additional licenses have to be purchased for additional features.
Varonis is managed and administered within the central IT department for the organization, but, all aspects of the product are being used throughout the organization.
- Administrative interface to manage the product
- Reports are easily generated and very detailed
- Classification of data works great with a low false positive/classification rate
- Technical support from the company is exceptional
- Sales and sales engineering from the company is exceptional
- Product can be costly
- Different licenses needed to add in some modules to the product
- Data storage needed can be high depending on amount of modules and data being collected
December 07, 2018
Varonis - The must have tool for Data Governance
Varonis is one of University Advancement’s core business partners in our effort to comply with the recent PCI and data security initiatives the University is undertaking. We needed to get control of our data but it became evident there was a great deal of data that was not identified due to the amount and length of data being stored.
Some of the key questions answered by Varonis:
- The amount of stale and sensitive data.
- Where was this data stored?
- Who owned and had access to the data?
- What were people doing with the data?
Some of the controls provided by Varonis:
1. Alerts and reports on data access and file types.
2. Notifications on high priority AD alerts, Exchange alerts, and behavioral analytics.
Varonis has given us much needed insight into our data, which has become essential in our ability to secure our environment.
- It will scan severs for Data Classifications (Credit Cards, Social Security, HIPPA, Ferpa, etc.)
- Detailed logging of all the writes, modified, delete, open, etc. of a file, folder, AD object, Exchange object, and sensitive data
- Provides alerting for AD, Exchange, and Ransomeware
- I can identify data owners of a particular share and email them quarterly entitlement reviews for permissions.
- Speed up with website within the DatAlert site.
Data Governance suite was bought in for a couple of reasons, firstly to help with the organisation classification project and secondly to control and monitor access to data across the company. In both cases this tool provided a way of viewing what data was out there along with putting some control on who was accessing what and allowing the information owners and approvers to have a realtime view of what they are agreeing to when authorizing user access.
- Ability to structure unstructured data
- Help with data classification projects
- Put access controls around data
- Find out what is happening with your data
- 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
Varonis Data Security Platform Scorecard Summary
About 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.
Categories: Data Governance, Identity Management, Network Behavior Analysis, Data Privacy Management
Varonis Data Security Platform Technical Details
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| Mobile Application: | No |