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It includes activity monitoring, sensitive data threat detection, and discovery, all of which fall under the 10101 Umbrella. Additionally, because of unstructured data, there's overexposed access.
We use the tools that come with it, such as data classification and real-time active alerting.
We're in the process of maturing the incident response for our team. We're transitioning from on-prem to the cloud and are now evaluating it for the cloud as well as Defender for Cloud and all of its components. So, we're doing a comparison of that.
The most effective feature for me is its ability to identify sensitive areas, allowing you to drill down into the sensitive data, provided you have access, to determine whether it's a false positive or a true positive.
That's the best thing for me, out of all of it. It's got everything, like other ones, but I like to be able to look at something if I'm doing forensics on the alert and say, "Okay, do I really need to do something with this?"
For example, we don't want sensitive data in our OneDrive. So it identifies the sensitive data that's possibly in the OneDrive. And what I can do is look at it and identify whether it's actually sensitive data in Datalert or whether it looks like sensitive data, but I know it's a false positive.
If it is a false positive, I can basically say ignore this pattern based on X, Y, and Z, you know, whether it's Redjax or keyword proximity. So I like that.
With other tools, I gotta go through a whole process because it's a little bit more complex.
Here, I can tag it and bag it in one shot. And the next good time I scan, it slips over it. So it helps in that.
For me, it's more about performance, but that's being resolved with certain issues. And it's just because of the volume of data that we're putting through it.
I have been using it for three years.
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
I had concerns with performance. Especially with the new product plugins for monitoring, considering how Windows always has quirks in the Office 365 environment.
The SaaS version is highly scalable.
The company has over 10,000 people, and currently, four or five are using it. We're looking into self-service for reporting and governance and normalizing the data into a data lake solution.
I have a direct line, a red phone direct line to them. Nothing but a good experience here.
Positive
The initial setup is straightforward. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a five out of ten only because I wasn't used to it. I've worked with IBM Guardian and BigFix before.
Since I was really familiar with those two products, as a consultant, I could install them in less than a week as long as I had all the configuration requirements done. Most of its configuration requirements. Other than that, it's straightforward in installations.
There were seven people involved in the deployment. We had someone for global access reviews, another for scale data, one for maintaining the environment, architects for the installations, and an operations guide for updates.
We have only one person for maintenance.
It was a negotiation based on my past experiences with monitoring this type of software.
I don't know the exact amount. It's pricey, not for a small company. It's Fortune 500 type of software.
I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive.
For unstructured data monitoring, it's one of the top ones, if not the top one, due to its usability. The telemetry to capture everything and the reports are very easy to configure without having a developer degree.
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
We use the product for auditing, and keeping track of shares. It ensures proper access control and monitors file creation, access by relevant users, and productivity analytics.
The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand what's happening in our environment.
We are primarily using the DatAdvantage feature, which is accessed through the web UI and DNS tools. This has been quite helpful for us. While we don't have licenses for other features at the moment. We are getting a POC to evaluate further.
It provides visibility into file access, allowing identification of unauthorized access. The cloud feature helps assess data exposure and recommends changes to secure data, preventing overexposure to the public. We are interested in the key feature that prevents overexposure, making sure that only authorized individuals have access.
Having a centralized platform provides visibility, which proves beneficial given our constraints with a smaller team.
The tool's update process is not easy as compared to other tools.
The tool is stable.
Varonis Platform is scalable.
I have experience with the tool's update and it is complex. The process is not easy as compared to other tools.
I rate Varonis Platform an eight out of ten. Currently, we're evaluating our environment and assessing tools to meet new needs. Netskope was brought in for specific reasons, and as we review its capabilities, I find similarities with the Varonis Platform. I'm interested in comparing the two to make an informed decision.
We use the solution's data alert, data advantage, and data classification modules. Its use case is similar to DLP. It helps to ensure that people don't move data to places they are not supposed to.
Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system.
The product is very complicated.
I have been working with the product for eight years.
I rate Varonis Platform's stability an eight out of ten.
The tool is very scalable.
I rate the tool's deployment a four out of ten. A team of two to three engineers helped us with the deployment.
Varonis Platform is a comprehensive and mature product. It does more than it is intended to do. The tool is a huge time saver and a very valuable security asset. I rate it an eight out of ten.
The main use cases are for its data alert, data advantage, and data classification modules. It allows us to keep track of the data motion, and ensure data security.
We found it to be very transparent and good at monitoring data access activities without impacting the performance. It can easily identify unusual behavior or access patterns that may pose a potential threat, while operating as a unified reporting system.
It is significantly complex.
We have been using it for eight years now.
It offers good stability, I would rate it eight out of ten.
We found it to be very scalable.
Customer support experience has been highly satisfactory. I would rate it nine out of ten.
Positive
The initial setup was slightly complex. I would rate it four out of ten.
We found it to be a very comprehensive and mature product, offering good support. It efficiently does what it's intended to do by assisting in monitoring and reporting on sensitive data access, ensuring data governance. We found it to be a significant time saver and valuable security asset. I would rate it eight out of ten.