Varonis IDU™ Platform
The Varonis solution for comprehensive data governance is a highly scaleable software framework built with extreme ease of installation and use in mind.
The multi-tiered architecture, which can be implemented in under an hour, allows Varonis to aggregate information from user directories and file servers regardless of number and physical location. Once installed, DatAdvantage gives full visibility into the unstructured data access environment, showing exactly who has access to which folders and how those permissions were set or inherited.
The Intelligent Data Use (IDU™) platform is at the core of Varonis data governance solutions. It determines via rigorous computation not only who is accessing data and how, but who should have access, and clearly presents those recommendations for dissemination to the live access environment.
Most businesses keep user information and data in repositories. Users are grouped by job function on directories, and data (unstructured data) is "grouped" in folders on file servers. The two become linked when there is an access event (opening a spreadsheet, deleting a file etc.). These events are recorded on the file servers. It is the case that under rightful use conditions, members of a particular group in the organization frequently access the same data sets (i.e. the legal group accesses legal data). It can be said therefore, that users in a group "behave" similarly and their access patterns inherently reveal them to be a group. This fact when expressed as a matrix of activity establishes the basis for a mathematical model by which to derive business context. The Varonis Intelligent Data Use (IDU) platform analyzes user, data and access event information arranged in such a matrix to determine the groupings of users and data that belong together based on business need. The platform computes the relationships to show exactly who has appropriate group membership and who does not. This simple and elegant premise, which is executed by very complex and patent worthy statistical modeling, is wholly unique to Varonis and forms the core of the company's comprehensive platform for data governance.
