By offering the intelligence to know which data is of most interest or at greatest risk. Varonis gives businesses a powerful tool to classify data, manage who has access to it, and know whose privileges should be revoked.– Sally Hudson
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Varonis® IDU Classification Framework®
- Actionable Intelligence
- Extensible Architecture
- Leverages Existing Infrastructure
- Easy, Powerful Classification Rules
- Quickly and accurately identify files that contain sensitive information
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Overview
The Challenge
A single terabyte of data usually contains about 50,000 folders; many are likely to contain files that might be considered sensitive. Data classification technology promises to help find sensitive files, but finding them is just the beginning. Then, the really difficult challenges arise:
- Who has access to them?
- Who is using them?
- Who owns them?
- Where are they most at risk?
- Which ones are stale?
- Policy Enforcement: How can we make sure data owners and end users adhere to organizational policies?
The Varonis Solution
The Varonis® IDU Classification Framework® addresses these challenges by providing visibility into the content of data across file systems and SharePoint sites, and then integrating it into the Varonis Metadata Framework™. Classification information is then presented in the DatAdvantage interface, enabling actionable intelligence for data governance, including a prioritized list of those folders with the most exposed permissions AND containing the most sensitive data, who has access to that data, who is using it, who owns it, and how to effectively limit access without disrupting business processes.
Learn more > Read the Use Case: Reducing Risk with the Varonis Data Classification Framework
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Features and Benefits
Features
The Varonis IDU Classification Framework gives organizations visibility into the content of data, providing intelligence on where sensitive data resides across its file systems. By integrating file classification information – from either the included classification engine or from a third-party classification product – alongside the rest of the Varonis metadata in the DatAdvantage interface, IDU Classification Framework enables actionable intelligence for data governance, including a prioritized report of those folders with the most exposed permissions AND containing the most sensitive data.
Benefits
- Actionable intelligence helps organizations see where their most sensitive data is over-exposed
- Extensible Architecture allows using either the Varonis classification engine or data from third-party DLP products
- True incremental scanning through DatAdvantage's real-time knowledge of all file creations and modifications
- Easy, powerful classification rules through keywords, regular expression matches, or dictionary search
- Algorithmic verification, such as IBAN, Luhn, and Verhoeff, helps ensure accurate classification results
Why Varonis
Data protection is necessary to safeguard an organization's customers, employees, business partners, and investors. It is fundamental in securing an organization's intellectual property and competitive edge, and for maintaining the organizational trust required for it to properly function. Ongoing, scalable data protection and management require technology designed to handle an ever-increasing volume and complexity—a metadata framework.
The Varonis Metadata Framework™ non-intrusively collects this critical metadata, generates metadata where existing metadata is lacking (e.g. its file system filters and content inspection technologies), pre-processes it, normalizes it, analyzes it, stores it, and presents it to IT administrators in an interactive, dynamic interface. Once data owners are identified, they are empowered to make informed authorization and permissions maintenance decisions through a configurable web-based interface—that are then executed—with no IT overhead or manual backend processes.
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Technical FAQ
- What platforms does the Varonis IDU Data Classification Framework support?
- Windows file systems, SharePoint, EMC Celerra and Network Appliance NAS devices
- What does the Varonis IDU Data Classification Framework do?
- Based on a user-defined list of regular expressions and text strings that you provide to the Varonis IDU Data Classification Framework, Varonis® DatAdvantage® will then detect and identify these patterns within the contents of existing files.
- How does the data classification framework handle encrypted or password protected files?
- Currently, the framework cannot. Any protected or encrypted files are not scanned, but their existence is reported separately.
- Can I integrate results from an existing data classification process (e.g., DLP products or stand-alone data classification products)?
- Yes – the Varonis IDU Data Classification Framework allows you to query and report on the framework of information, including results generated by an external classification process.
- Does Varonis store the actual content of the scanned / detected files within the application?
- No – the data classification framework only records the type of pattern and the location of the filename in question (including multiple matches in a single file).
- How is the IDU Data Classification Framework more efficient than traditional approaches?
- By understanding the existing framework of unstructured and semi-structured file systems, Varonis can target and optimize the analysis of file systems based on potential access controls (e.g., only folders accessible to domain users), realized access (e.g., accessed in the last 7 days) and, as a result, deliver immediately actionable results based on the risk profile of the business.
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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