TechValidate Research on Varonis Data Security Platform

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on an April 2017 survey of Varonis Metadata Framework customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The educational institute experienced the following challenges prior to the Varonis Data Risk Assessment and the use of Varonis solutions:

• Overexposed sensitive & classified data
• Limited to no monitoring of privileged and end user access
• Overabundance of stale data

They performed a Varonis Data Risk Assessment for the following reasons:

• Validate security concerns
• Experience the product before buying

Use Case

The following issues were identified and prioritized by the Data Risk Assessment:

• Folders having global access: immediate
• Sensitive files having global access: immediate
• Folders having inconsistent permissions: “on the radar”
• Stale enabled users: “on the radar”
• Stale data: “on the radar”

Results

The surveyed organization experienced the following benefits after their Data Risk Assessment:

• Identified at risk sensitive and classified data
• Prioritized remediation list

They purchased the following products following their Data Risk Assessment:

• DatAdvantage for Windows
• DatAlert

Introduction

This case study of a small business health care company is based on a May 2017 survey of Varonis DatAlert customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Varonis DatAlert:

• Purchased DatAlert as a result of the following:
  • The need to prove monitoring for compliance regulations
  • We migrated to a Worldwide global Active Directory in our company and we needed to keep track and control of our data access.

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Varonis DatAlert that the surveyed company uses:

• Detected the following incidents with DatAlert:
  • Ransomware
  • Misconfigurations
• Receives alerts through the following:
  • Email
• Uses the following Varonis products:
  • DatAdvantage for Windows
  • DatAlert (includes Analytics and/or Suite)

Results

The surveyed company said the following about Varonis DatAlert:

• Out of all the security technologies they’ve invested in, DatAlert is providing the most valuable alerts.
• DatAlert has fewer false positives than other security technologies (e.g. IDS/IPS).
• Alerts from DatAlert are as easy to understand as alerts from other security technologies.
• DatAlert saved the security team 11-15 hours per week monitoring and searching for anomalous behavior against their data.