Varonis is a great tool for watching over and reporting on your environment. It helps you sleep at night!
Updated August 29, 2023
Varonis is a great tool for watching over and reporting on your environment. It helps you sleep at night!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Varonis Data Security Platform
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.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
Do you think Varonis Data Security Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Varonis Data Security Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Varonis Data Security Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Varonis Data Security Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Varonis Data Security Platform again?
Yes
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