Industries
Varonis data governance solutions are applicable for every enterprise that has business data on shared file servers. Whether your industry is highly regulated, you manage data belonging to clients and third parties, or file shares are simply the places where everything from desktop contents to organizational data ends up, our solutions can help you put need-to-know based controls around this information.
Below are examples of how some our customers in specific markets are benefiting from Varonis data governance solutions.
Federal Agencies
Varonis provides a complete framework for Federal Agencies to manage, protect and audit data on file servers and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Over 500 customers currently use our software solutions. The agencies and organizations of the US Federal Government and the IT departments responsible for critical information (i.e. spreadsheets, presentations, documents, image and multi-media files, source code) have as part of their charter, safekeeping the sensitive and important information in their care. Further they must comply with the regulatory mandates of SOX, FISMA and HIPAA, by ensuring that all data access is closely monitored, its use documented and access to it governed by the principle of least privilege.
The Varonis Data Governance Suite enables agencies’ to establish a comprehensive system of data governance by which the parties responsible for proper data use oversee and enact permissions. This ensures that access controls to data are scalable, accurate, timely and commensurate with data protection policies and initiatives. The net gain is a significant reduction in risk for the long term.
Financial Services
Naturally financial services firms deal in highly sensitive and proprietary information. This includes confidential information belonging to the firms themselves as well as to their clients. One global investment management and brokerage services firm uses Varonis DatAdvantage to ensure that investment management associates see only the data of their specific clients and no other. This ensures least privilege access that is in line with the company's strict codes for client data privacy protections as well as federal guidelines for such access. As associates change roles, locations or management portfolios their permissions are updated and removed through and by the DatAdvantage application.
Read the IDC Financial Services Case Study
Healthcare
Any enterprise dealing in patient and health services information must meet the strictest of internal and government sanctioned guidelines for not only protecting data at rest in file shares but also for continuously furnishing proof of such protections. One health management organization has made DatAdvantage generated reports on data use and access, a permanent unit of their quarterly audit and compliance status record.
Manufacturing
Enterprises in these markets generate a lot of valuable unstructured data in the form of marketing, product and business plans among others. This data is often shared across office and manufacturing locations worldwide. Timely and accurate controls to swelling data stores are key to protecting valuable company assets as well as in ensuring that business is not disrupted during data merging and migration projects. One firm in particular, has found Varonis solutions to be invaluable during acquisitions when additional users and file servers must be seamlessly integrated with the parent company's data controls. At the initial stages of the merger, the organization reviews entitlements to the newest data sets and with Varonis recommendations is able to bring the acquired company's data controls in line with corporate policies for access. As time progresses, daily reviews of user group memberships and access needs ensure that changes to entitlements happen quickly and without disruption to either the core or the newest business units.
Multimedia
Characteristic of these firms are large numbers of short-term projects to which both permanent and retained contract employees contribute. These environments are very dynamic with user roles and access needs changing constantly. While it is nearly impossible for small IT departments to keep track of data entitlements manually, with DatAdvantage keeping permissions current and accurate becomes part of their routine review and is reduced to minutes.