Varonis Data Security Platform Reviews and Ratings
Rating: 8.8 out of 10
Score
8.8 out of 10
Community insights
TrustRadius Insights for Varonis Data Security Platform are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
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.
We had many visibility issues in our Active Directory and file server environment. Varonis helped us see the environment more clearly and mitigate the reported risks. We corrected several errors in AD, fixed privileges in the environment, were able to verify the number of files accessed on the file server and whether some accesses were really necessary, and we made the necessary corrections.
Pros
DatAlert
DataClassification
Automatic Engine
Data Loss Prevention
Data Discovery & Classification
Cons
Prior communication of changes
Customer incentive program
Greater integration with AI
Likelihood to Recommend
Based on my recent experience attempting an integration with an existing system, I believe Varonis doesn't perform well in environments lacking standardized file types, such as PDF, ZIP, JPG, and others. Environments without this standardization make it more difficult for Varonis to recognize the data.Therefore, I recommend a Proof of Concept (POC) before actual implementation in the environment.
Our organization uses the Varonis Data Security Platform to monitor, and manage sensitive data across our on-premises environments. The platform is a part of our data security, and insider-threat management strategy. Varonis helped us with Data Visibility and Classification, clear visibility into where sensitive data resides and also GDPR compliance.
Pros
Varonis Data Security Platform provides visibility into where sensitive data lives
It helps to detect and alert on abnormal activity on files
Varonis simplifies managing permissions and access rights
Cons
Initial setup and customization can be time-consuming
Creatiom of custom reports or visualizations may be improved
Likelihood to Recommend
Varonis Data Security Platform is highly effective for organizations needing deep visibility and compliance across data environments, but it may be less appropriate for smaller organizations with limited unstructured data or simpler security requirements, but also because of the high cost of the solution.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Varonis Data Security Platform is basically an enterprise security solution for data protection which detects threats and responds to them accordingly. Varonis Data Security Platform can protect your data on local servers as well as in the cloud. As an organization,
you’ll be able to protect all your sensitive documents, emails, confidential business information, your employee personal records, and even your financial records as well. Varonis analyses your data time to time and makes sure there are no other suspicious activities.
Pros
Regular confidential data analysis to detect any anomalies.
Ability to detect such anomalies and take necessary action without any human involvement.
Keeping separate event logs for each file to keep track of its changes.
Cons
The Initial setting up process could be more simplified.
It requires a noticeable amount of processing power to run the system smoothly.
You're gonna need full-time staff members just for the maintenance.
Likelihood to Recommend
The most highlighted feature of Varonis Data Security Platform is the data analyzing mechanism. It analyzes your data all the time with some special algorithms to detect any unusual activities so that it can identify any unusual behavior or users and
take necessary action to save your sensitive data. They also offer a complete dashboard solution for their customers to control across different data stores, see their current state, and any security breaches to be addressed manually.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Identifying open permissions on a file share [is] outstanding. It [Varonis Data Security Platform] can also recommend what users should have access and help clean up those file locations. It can also create the AD groups based on your naming convention. This does a great job identifying location of sensitive data (SSNs, Credit card numbers, etc...) We have used this software to lock down file locations based on the software's recommendation and then had to reverse the changes because of users getting denied access. On a positive note, the software does allow modeling and also has rollback ability.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
The application is used by the IT Department and is implemented enterprise wide. We use the product as a part of our defense in depth approach to cyber-security. The tool enable our enterprise to monitor PII in a way we were not able to monitor it prior. The tool also provides significant reporting tools that we use to augment our monthly security meetings.
Pros
This tool allows us to protect sensitive data.
It also improves our ability to maintain compliance with many different requirements.
The tool also permits auditing capabilities that we did not have prior to its implementation.
The tools also proactively alerts us to potential ransomware related events.
Cons
The tool is vast and it takes a significant amount of time to tune it for your evironment.
The report formatting is rudimentary and takes a while to get use to for staff.
The integration to our SIEM could be better.
Likelihood to Recommend
This tool is well suited to address all of our auditing and reporting for production data. The alerting feature is outstanding and the search feature is well executed. The interface is slightly outdated and the ability to search through archive data is cumbersome. The reporting options are excellent but the report display is not designed in a way that makes it difficult to interpret the results.
We're started using Varonis more than 6 years ago, primarily its file server auditor features, to log file server actions such as file/folders read, write, moving, deletion, etc. It's surely an important tool to have when you have file server incidents. Like some department folders 'disappearing' and the manager or department's head demanding to know who was responsible. We had some incidents like that and Varonis really proved its value. It has native integration to a wide range of storage/NAS/fileservers. In our case, we use Netapp storage and it integrates to it through Netapp's native "policies." It works really well! Varonis can also be used to manage permissions and to find access "anomalies," for example, if a user starts to read/write a large amount of data at the same time (it could be an infected computer running a ransomware attack).
Pros
Native integration to Netapp storage (and to others, but we use a Netapp).
Due to the large amount of logs it keeps, it can be really slow to search.
It's console could be more user-friendly and intuitive. Maybe web-based. Why not?
Likelihood to Recommend
For sure it is well suited for companies that need to keep track of their data and that are willing to pay for it. It does an excelent job of monitoring the file's access, with zero impact on Storage's performance. Sometimes it is not enough to be able to restore the data. Sometimes in critical incidents, managers and heads demand to know who caused it. Thanks to Varonis we were able to give them this information easily and in a short time.
VU
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
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
Pros
Monitors and reports file and folder access and usage.
Provides for assigned folder owners who can receive reports and manage access themselves.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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.
Pros
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
Cons
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
Likelihood to Recommend
<p>With minimal Identity and Access Management staff, this tool has been a blessing for quick responses to questions like:</p><p>'Who has access?' <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05px; word-spacing: -0.85px;">'What are the permissions on a specific shared drive folder?' </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05px; word-spacing: -0.85px;">'When was the last time a folder was modified and by who?' </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05px; word-spacing: -0.85px;">'Where are all the locations that contain sensitive data such as SOX systems?'</span></p>
VU
Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees)
Varonis is being used by all of the organization to search for financial data to classify them and encrypt all that data.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Varonis Data Security Platform is excellent for organizations of different sizes and if properly configured and tuned, allows security specialists to be aware of file activity and active directory statistics within their organization.
