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Varonis® DatAdvantage® for SharePoint

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Permissions management, file access auditing, and data classification.

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Overview

The Challenge

SharePoint sites present significant management and protection challenges to administrators:

  • Permissions: Determining who has access to a folder, which folders a user or group has access to, and identifying excess, unneeded permissions.
  • Access Auditing: IT can't answer pressing questions like, "Who accessed or deleted my data?"
  • Data Ownership: IT can't reliably identify business owners of shares and folders.
  • Operational: Manual permissions and group changes are unreliable.
  • High Risk: Stale, excess permissions are rarely revoked. The "Everyone" group is out there—a problem that is hard to find and fix. Critical files and folders are exposed.

The Varonis Solution

Varonis® DatAdvantage® addresses these challenges by aggregating Active Directory user and group details, ACL information and all data access events—without requiring native OS auditing—to build a complete picture of who can and who is accessing data, and who should have their access revoked. It also leads IT to rightful data owners, so the right people can ensure appropriate access and usage. With the Varonis Data Classification framework, IT can immediately identify folders with excessive permissions that contain quantities of sensitive data.

"DatAdvantage® gives us the full solution we need to audit data access and to see user permissions. When it comes to understanding where permissions come from, we don't have to guess 'how does this user have access to this data?'" – Chuck Klawans
Children's Hospital and Health System

Features and Benefits

Features

  • Complete, bi-directional view into the permissions structure of unstructured and semi-structured file systems
  • Complete Audit Trail
  • Recommendations and Modeling
  • Data Ownership Identification
  • Extensible Framework

Benefits

  • See who has permissions to shared folders
  • See which data a user or group can access
  • Audit and report on every file touch
  • See who should and should not have access, and simulate changes without affecting production environments
  • Identify data owners and involve them in management and protection through automation
  • Identify files that contain sensitive information with the Varonis Data Classification Framework
  • Accommodate new platforms and metadata streams
  • Quickly and accurately identify files that contain sensitive information with the Varonis IDU Classification Framework

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.

Technical FAQ

What versions of Microsoft SharePoint does DatAdvantage support?
WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010
Do you record document operations (e.g., read, create, delete) from the SharePoint document libraries?
Yes – all such operations are recorded and visible through the DatAdvantage for SharePoint user interface and reports.
What permissions do I need to monitor a SharePoint Server?
As long as you can provide account credentials for a domain user that can access the SharePoint site, we can collect the appropriate information.
Do you require native SharePoint auditing to be enabled?
Monitoring a SharePoint server with DatAdvantage for SharePoint will automatically enable auditing on the appropriate SharePoint site / site collection. The Varonis agent that is installed will normalize and automatically prune any SharePoint log information so that the overhead on the monitored site collection is minimal.

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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