Varonis
by Varonis • • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
Varonis is a data security platform for security teams to find sensitive data, fix excessive access and spot abnormal use in cloud, SaaS and on-premises.
Varonis is a data security platform for security and data protection teams that need to find sensitive data, see who can reach it and act when it is misused, across cloud services, SaaS applications, databases and on-premises data stores. It is made and owned by Varonis Systems, Inc., an independent company headquartered in Miami that sells the platform under the Varonis name on its own website. The platform is built from connected parts. Data Discovery and Classification finds and labels PII, PCI, PHI, passwords, secrets and tokens. Database Activity Monitoring watches cloud, on-premises, managed and unmanaged databases without agents and records the platform, the action and the actor. Data Access Governance works from the Varonis access graph, which factors in entitlements, group memberships and sharing links, and it removes excessive permissions and fixes risky misconfigurations automatically. Data-Centric UEBA builds machine learning behavior baselines for users and devices, and Data Detection and Response keeps a searchable audit trail of data access. Varonis Atlas covers AI security, Data Lifecycle Management is a further part, and Data Loss Prevention policies and Microsoft Purview labels work with classification results. Varonis suits security teams and data owners in organizations whose sensitive files sit in several places at once: Microsoft 365, Salesforce, GitHub, Google Drive and Box, plus AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and on-premises servers. It fits teams that want remediation to run automatically instead of being tracked by hand, and teams that want to adopt AI while reducing data exposure. The platform is bought as one product by quote, starting from a demo or a risk assessment request. Day to day, analysts use the dashboards to see sensitive files by exposure, review overexposed files by platform and classification, and follow scan progress in the discovery monitor. Security operations staff review database queries and alerts on abnormal behavior, and Varonis also offers 24x7x365 MDDR coverage. The platform sits beside Microsoft Purview for labels and connects to Salesforce, GitHub, Google Drive, Box, Microsoft 365 and AWS.
Features
- Included: Agentless cloud data store discovery
- Included: Shadow and unmanaged data detection
- Included: Built-in classification of cloud data
- Included: Multi-cloud coverage across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Included: SaaS application data coverage
- Included: On-premises data store coverage
- Included: Access path and exposure analysis
- Not included: Risk prioritisation with attack-path context
- Not included: Data flow and movement tracking
- Included: Automated permission and misconfiguration fixes
- Included: Anomalous data access alerts
- Not included: Encryption-at-rest posture checks
- Included: Findings mapped to compliance frameworks
- Not included: Data residency and sovereignty view
- Not included: AI pipeline and training data scanning
- Not included: Findings routed to ticketing and SIEM
Additional Features
- Data Discovery and Classification
- Database Activity Monitoring
- Data Access Governance
- Data-Centric UEBA
- Data Detection and Response
- Data Loss Prevention policy enforcement
- Sensitivity labeling with Microsoft Purview
- Varonis access graph of effective permissions
Best for
- Security teams cleaning up excessive permissions on sensitive files
- Organizations with sensitive data spread across Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Box and Google Drive
- Teams monitoring cloud and on-premises databases without installing agents
- Security operations teams that want behavior baselines for users and devices
- Security teams that want permission fixes applied automatically
- Organizations reducing data exposure before adopting AI tools
Use cases
- Finding overexposed sensitive files across Google Drive, Box and Salesforce
- Classifying PII, PCI and PHI in cloud and on-premises data stores
- Monitoring queries and actors on cloud and on-premises databases
- Removing excessive permissions on sensitive folders
- Checking who can reach sensitive data through the access graph
- Catching abnormal data access against a behavior baseline
- Applying sensitivity labels and DLP policies through Microsoft Purview
- Tracking scan progress across AWS, Azure and Salesforce data sources
- Requesting a data risk assessment before a demo
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