Customers use the product to identify sensitive information, correlate it with access permissions, and utilize its automation engine for remediation. It includes fixing broken permissions and managing global access. In healthcare settings, the data privilege module allows for implementing the least privilege and simplifies permission management. It also provides effective data alerting and reporting for both on-premises and cloud environments like Microsoft 365.
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Data is the new gold
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use reporting and information presentation with minimal initial configuration overhead.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some functionality assumes higher level of business maturity to fully leverage the benefits. Ie - the business is not mature enough to recognize data is the new gold and instead are still focused on perimeter security.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility and response to data and role based action against business assets.
Nice for data security.
What do you like best about the product?
Access to data and alerts. Web UI is fairly useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sorting and exporting reports/saved searches.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility to data access alerts
Well integrated programs
What do you like best about the product?
Integrations into multiple platforms to increase overall security functions from multiple perspectives.
What do you dislike about the product?
No comment for this section due to platforms usages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Management for different platforms
Various ftw
What do you like best about the product?
It's been a life saver in many instances when we required some intervention.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would like more innovation on integrating into other platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting on on-prem data
Excellence customer experience
What do you like best about the product?
We have a analysis available to us anytime. Makes tracking problems down easy with help of AI. Able to automate several remediation problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost of course. Always like to keep the budget low. =)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to simply detection by combing through billions of events and alerting on important events only. Plus correlating events to tell a story.
Has valuable data alerting capabilities and efficient reporting features
What is our primary use case?
What needs improvement?
The solution's areas of improvement are the interface and the dependency on on-premises deployment for some components.
The interface has improved with the move to a SaaS model, but aspects could still be modernized. Additionally, some elements, like the data privilege module, still require on-premises deployment.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have worked with Varonis platform for approximately two and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable. However, issues related to component deployment and latency between collectors and data sources may arise. Increasing resources on these components typically resolves performance issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product's scalability is managed automatically with the SaaS deployment.
It depends on the capacity of components like SQL servers and collectors for on-premises setups. Adding more collectors can help handle increased data loads.
How are customer service and support?
Overall, customer support is good. However, there can be delays in issue resolution, with some problems requiring multiple sessions to resolve.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Varonis and Microsoft's solutions, particularly in data classification and protection, complement each other.
Microsoft's offerings, especially if included in an E5 license, provide a comprehensive and cost-effective solution. Varonis excels in classification and integration with Microsoft's tools but is generally more expensive.
How was the initial setup?
The installation is relatively straightforward, but estimating the duration for remediation tasks can be challenging. The setup involves adding targets and basic configuration, which typically takes between seven days to two weeks. Ongoing engagement is crucial to ensure the platform remains effective and provides value.
What was our ROI?
The ROI can be high initially, especially if the platform is used for significant remediation tasks. Over time, as automation tasks become routine, the perceived ROI may diminish. The expanding feature set and competition from other solutions may also impact the ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The platform is expensive. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
The solution's classification engine is highly configurable and efficient. It provides good reporting and visualization, which is superior to previous tools like Microsoft's. The platform's data alerting capabilities and automation features for managing broken permissions are particularly notable.
It offers robust automation capabilities, including global permission repair, broken access repairs, and data transport engine features for archiving and migration. The automation tools are useful for managing permissions and performing cleanup tasks efficiently.
It provides strong reporting capabilities that help customers adhere to regulations and maintain compliance. Automating reporting is beneficial for maintaining robust governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) posture.
It does incorporate some AI elements, particularly in its data alerting module. However, AI integration has yet to be the primary focus of my implementations. AI is expected to play a larger role in future enhancements.
I recommend Varonis, particularly its effectiveness in performing data security remediation tasks. Despite its high cost, it is valuable for its capabilities and the lack of impact on end users.
Overall, I rate it a nine out of ten.
Varonis is the leader for scanning unstructured data with a robust classification rule set
What do you like best about the product?
Continue growth of the product to address relevant data security concerns in todays world.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would love flexibility to create our own reports vs using OOB templates. (On prem). SaaS version has some limitations with reporting but Varonis Services is working with us to get what we need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifying where sensitive may be, what permissions and who has accessed. Dashboards provide additional information on landscape such as stale data
Great and informative
What do you like best about the product?
Usability and breath of coverage of different platforms.
What do you dislike about the product?
The high price tag of the product and the fact that onprem is essentially deprecated and forcing our hand
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifying sensitive and overly exposed data in our environment.
Offers the ability to modify permissions and file removals, and connect the Varonis Data Security Platform to our storage systems
What is our primary use case?
We use it to manage storage systems. We can see who changes file names, folder names, deletes files, removes or adds permissions.
What is most valuable?
We can check modify permissions and file removals, and connect the Varonis Data Security Platform to our storage systems like NetApp.
When we add a filer to Varonis, there's a policy that automatically connects the SVM or CIFS shares. That's good. We can automatically add these without changes.
We can easily check logs and find out who modified a file or folder.
What needs improvement?
There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. It is stable for me. There are no issues, no bugs and no breakdown.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's included in three or four projects.
We never had any issues with scalability. We also have free training from Varonis on how to use it.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support are good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy. It is a good tool to manage storage and get snapshot backups.
For Varonis deployment it takes almost three to four hours.
The software updates automatically. We can check it in the manager.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is good. It neither expensive nor cheap. It is average.
What other advice do I have?
I would like to recommend it. In one tool, we can see everything. We can check 180 days of files and see if anyone has made changes.
There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
We all have permission-based tech debt
What do you like best about the product?
For us, the primary use case was identifying incorrect data file and folder permissions across our landscape. Thanks to Varonis, we've been able to clean up and correct years of bad practices.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a lot of alerts and quite a bit of "white noise" to filter through until you get everything dialed-in.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Over exposed data that should not be accessible by large internal populations.
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