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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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Rodney Barnhardt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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.
  • 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.
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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

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?'

  • 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

Ease of use after implementation

Built in security policies

Ability to customize policies

Identifying Sensative data repositories

Gus Awad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Is well suited for companies that need to detect financial or personal information that requires it to be scanned, reported and encrypted. It's not suitable for nonsecurity requirements.
  • It shielded us and reduced the risk of data leaks that we can potentially be sued for.
  • It helped us with PCI compliance since we introduced new systems that process financial data and we increased our sales with all the systems integrations.
I wish the cost was a little bit lower and increase functionality and features would give it 10/10.
I dealt with support few times and each case was handled properly and escalated to the right person in a timely fashion.
We used it as it was the right business requirement for us and the implementation was simple and quick.
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