Jump to content

Solution for UNIX/Linux

UNIX/Linux presents significant challenges to administrators. Native UNIX and Linux auditing is cumbersome, resource intense and voluminous. Permissions management, data owner identification, and protecting sensitive data now require automation—there are simply too many files, directories, ACLs, and groups in LDAP and NIS to continue managing all of them manually.

Overview

The Challenge

Microsoft Windows file servers, including NAS devices like EMC Celerra and NetApp filers, 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 data sets.
  • Operational: Manual permissions and group changes are unreliable.
  • High Risk: Stale, excess permissions are rarely revoked. Global access groups are out there—a problem that is hard to find and fix. Critical files and folders are exposed

The Varonis Solution

Varonis® DatAdvantag® addresses these challenges by aggregating Active Directory user and group details, ACL information and all data access even—without requiring native UNIX/Linux 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.

Features & Benefits

Features

  • Complete, bi-directional view into the permissions structure of unstructured UNIX and Linux file servers
  • 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
  • Quickly and accurately identify files that contain sensitive information with the Varonis IDU Classification Framework
  • 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 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.

Get the Varonis View. Sign up for the 30-Day Free Trial.