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- Entitlement Reviews
Solution for Entitlement Reviews
- Determine where owners are needed
- Identify data owners/stewards
- Provide data owners actionable information
- Recertify access
- Automatically execute data owner instructions
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Overview
The Challenge
Many organizations are now performing regular entitlement reviews or attestations for unstructured and semi-structured data platforms, like file shares and SharePoint servers. Whether you’re reviewing from the folder or group perspectives (or both), the same questions arise:
- Which folders or groups need owners?
- Who owns which folders or groups?
- How do we get them actionable information about their data and groups?
- How can we automate the process?
The Varonis Solution
Varonis automates the entitlement review/permissions audit process, shifting the way IT works and the way the organization thinks about data management and protection. IT will stop playing the intermediary between the data and the data owners, reduce its manual workload, and improve security at the same time. Automation will programmatically identify the resources that need to be reviewed, align security groups with data sets, identify data owners, route required access information—and actionable intelligence—to those owners, execute their decisions, and provide auditable evidence that the process is being followed.
Metadata Streams
Four types of metadata are critical for data governance
- User and Group Information - from Active Directory, LDAP, NIS, SharePoint, etc.
- Permissions information - knowing who can access what data in which containers
- Access Activity - knowing which users do access what data, when and what they've done
- Sensitive Content Indicators - knowing which files contain items of sensitivity and importance, and where they reside
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.
Resources
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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