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Varonis® Data Governance Suite

The Varonis® Data Governance Suite provides organizations the ability to keep pace with their data, manage access entitlements efficiently and effectively, audit access to every file event, identify and involve data owners and find and classify sensitive and business critical data. Varonis offers a comprehensive and effective solution for data governance using a scalable and extensible metadata framework.

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Data Governance Suite

Overview

The Challenge

Unstructured data in organizations is exploding and out of control. It encompasses all distinct files—documents, images, spreadsheets, videos and audio files—stored on servers, NAS devices and in semi-structured repositories like SharePoint. Managing and protecting this data presents enormous challenges:

  • Permissions: Determining who has access to a data set, which folders a user or group can access and identifying excess, unneeded permissions
  • Access Auditing: IT can't answer questions like, "Who accessed or deleted my data?"
  • Data Ownership: IT can't reliably identify business owners of data sets, and has even less ability to involve data owners in the governance process.
  • Operational: Manual permissions and group changes are unreliable. Business users and data owners are unable to effectively make decisions about data access.
  • High Risk: Stale, excess permissions are rarely revoked. Data is open to global access groups with no reliable way of remediating access without impacting the business.

The Varonis Solution

The Varonis® Data Governance Suite provides

  • Actionable intelligence about your data
  • Workflow that directly involves business users and data owners
  • Automation that reduces the burden on your organization's IT resource

Why Varonis

Permissions Challenges

  • Who has access to a folder?
  • Which folders does a user or group have access to?

On any given day, determining who has access to a folder isn't exactly easy, especially if groups on the folder's ACL contain one or more nested groups. Determining which folders a given group provides access to is downright difficult—without a program or script, an administrator has check every folder just to begin the investigation. Determining who should and should not have access to any given folder is simply impossible without automation.

Access Auditing Challenges

  • Who deleted my files?
  • Who has been accessing my folder?
  • What data has this user been accessing?

More than 95% of file access activity is not audited by IT. Why? Because native Windows auditing is so resource intensive and difficult to decipher, it is rarely enabled. The result is that IT cannot answer fundamental questions like, "Who has been accessing my folder? Who deleted my data? What data has this person accessed?"

Operational Challenges

  • What folders are open to the "everyone group", authenticated user, or domain users?
  • How do I fix those folders without disrupting my users?

Most permissions and group membership changes are performed manually and are untested prior to execution. Cleaning up global access groups (everyone, domain users, authenticated users, etc.) is especially difficult. Without access auditing, IT needs to make a guess as to who accesses a data set, manually effect the changes, and hope they don't get a call from an end user that can no longer access data they require to do their job.

Data Ownership Challenges

  • Who owns this data?
  • How can I help them make effective data protection and management decisions?

Organizational data owners should be making decisions about who gets access to their data and its proper use—not IT. Yet, 91% of organizations lack processes for determining who owns a given data set. Without a data owner that understands the sensitivity, importance, and organizational context, data cannot be managed and protected by the right people.

High Risks

  • Where do my users have excessive permissions?
  • How do I revoke permissions without disrupting my users?
  • Who has been accessing an unusual amount of data?

It is difficult to identify excessive permissions; remediating excessive permissions without disrupting organizational processes is even more difficult. As a result, access to data is rarely revoked. Excessive permissions and the lack of an audit trail leave data at risk for loss, theft, tampering and misuse—with no way to determine what happened after the fact.

30-Day Trial

Our 30-Day Free Trial provides a full audit of your file system or your SharePoint environment. Audit permissions, auditing access, usage statistics, recommendations, impact analysis, and identification of business owners.

Within hours of installation

You can instantly conduct a permissions audit: File and folder access permissions and how those map to specific users and groups. You can even generate reports.

Within a day of installation

Varonis® DatAdvantage® will begin to show you which users are accessing the data, and how

Within 3 weeks of installation

Varonis® DatAdvantage® will actually make highly reliable recommendations about how to limit access to files and folders to just those users who need it for their jobs.

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