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Solution for Exchange

Exchange mailboxes and public folders present significant challenges to administrators. Permissions management, access auditing, data owner identification, and protecting sensitive data now require automation—there are simply too many files, folders, ACL's, and groups to continue managing all of them manually.

Overview

The Challenge

Microsoft Exchange installations containing huge amounts of semi-structured data can present immense protection and management challenges:

  • Permissions: Determining who has access to Exchange mailboxes and public folders, including shared and delegated mailbox permissions.
  • Access Auditing: IT can't answer pressing questions like, "Who accessed my email or calendar?" or "Who sent email on my behalf?"
  • Data Ownership: IT can't reliably identify business owners of public folder data, and even some mailboxes.
  • Operational: Manual permissions and group changes are untested and unreliable.
  • High Risk: Stale, excess permissions are rarely revoked. Data open to the Anonymous account can be difficult to identify and remediate. Critical data is exposed.

The Varonis Solution

Varonis® DatAdvantage® addresses these challenges by aggregating Active Directory user and group details, mailbox and sharing ACL information and all data access events—without requiring journaling or diagnostics—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.

Features & Benefits

Features

  • Complete, bi-directional view into the permissions of Exchange
  • Complete Audit Trail
  • Recommendations and Modeling
  • Data Ownership Identification
  • Extensible Framework

Benefits

  • See who has permissions to mailboxes and shared folders
  • See which data a user or group can access
  • Audit and report on every email 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
  • Accommodate new platforms and metadata streams

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.

Return on Investment

Management Activity

Perform Data Protection Activities up to 30 Times Faster



Active vs. Stale

Reduce Storage Costs by up to 35%

Resources

30-Day Trial

Our 30-Day Free Trial provides a full audit of your file system or your Exchange 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: Mailbox and public folder 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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