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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?
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.
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 Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
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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!
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We are using Varonis to audit our Isilon file servers. We have used this software to identify sensitive data locations and locations that need to be more secure. This software has helped us automate a lot of the processes to secure these data locations. It took us a few months to fix these issues; whereas, it would have taken maybe years to repair manually. We are also using this to help us identify the presence of malware and alert us if any is detected and logoff any offending user.
- 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.
- Some of the reporting interfaces are difficult to navigate and appear somewhat dated.
- This software does require a lot of servers to be built for various purposes.
- Varonis is on the pricey side and now requires subscription based licensing. This can present problems is your company tries to use very little OpX spending vs CapX.
- Malware alerting
- File system auditing
- User event auditing for cloud and on-prem
- Varonis has only been a positive impact on our environment, but helping us close security holes that we didn't know existed.
- This product has also provided piece of mind by watching our environment for Malware attacks and taking automatic actions if necessary.
- This software does require a fair amount of server resources, but fortunately can be hosted in a virtual environment and has made this need easier to handle.
Varonis does a much better job presenting the entire picture. It can show an account being used, then elevated and then what actions were done with that account on a file system. ADaudit didn't have all of this information available with the modules we tested.
February 15, 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.
- It has reduced the amount of time and success in determining what has happened to missing files and folders. Anytime one of these disappears, someone wants to know what happened to it and who did it. In the past, we were not able to provide this information.
- It has assisted us in determining why a service type account locks and from the source. These have caused issues in the past in determining the source and when it locked. Many times the information would be on one of several DC's or could have possibly rolled off the logs by the time we checked on it.
We have not evaluated against other competitors. We have had this product several years, and they were one of the first of their type of product. While I am aware some products do much of the same functions, there would be a lot of time and effort involved in comparing and trying to see if they would meet our needs. Varonis Data Security Platform has been great for us, so at this time, I do not see anything it is missing, or we would need that would persuade me to look at competing products.
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
- The positive ROI has been in time spent now vs. pre Varonis tracking down permissions and access to folders in a share environment
- The built in policy rules were very helpful after learning how to properly apply them
- Quick snapshot into our sensitive data repositories has been a major win for our Security team
We briefly evaluated Stealthbits, but found it was not a major Enterprise grade product
July 05, 2019
Keeping an eye in the sky
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 helped detect unethical activity from an internal employee.
- Varonis meets several compliance controls for the organization.
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.
- Satisfies many of our annual PCI audit requirements concerning data governance, permissions, and alerting