When it comes to securing data, speed matters. While many DSPM vendors promise quick onboarding, their deployments often stretch into days or weeks due to complex prerequisites and manual configurations.
Varonis’ SaaS platform stands out as the fastest and most secure deployment option, enabling organizations to achieve full visibility and protection in minutes — not days.
Why speed is a competitive advantage
Most DSPM vendors require extensive setup steps: provisioning cloud connectors, configuring APIs, and validating permissions across multiple environments. These processes often involve lengthy coordination between IT, security, and compliance teams. Varonis eliminates these bottlenecks with:
- Lightweight private cloud collectors that install in minutes with infrastructure-as-code deployment support across any hyperscaler.
- No heavy infrastructure — no SQL servers, Solr clusters, or DSP engines.
- Automated API-based integrations for platforms like Microsoft 365, AWS, and Salesforce.
- Pre-built policies and risk models that start working immediately.
Key deployment steps with Varonis
- Kickoff and Prerequisites: Minimal checks validated via automated tools.
- Private Cloud Collector Installation (if needed): Download from SaaS portal and deploy in minutes. Ensures sensitive data does not leave your environment.
- Domain and Data Source Integration: Add Microsoft 365, AWS, and other sources with guided workflows.
- Immediate Protection: LLM-driven classification, event collection, identity/permissions inventory, and real-time alerting start as soon as a data source is connected. Our MDDR team immediately begins triaging and responding to alerts 24x7, even during a POC.
Agentless architecture and deployment options
Varonis’ agentless API-based architecture connects directly to cloud services for real-time visibility and action. The Varonis private cloud collector architecture preserves data sovereignty, sending only metadata up to the SaaS platform for analysis.
Competitive differentiators:
- Speed and time-to-value: Deployment is straightforward and quick, even in complex environments. Customers can onboard large numbers of data sources at once and begin understanding and reducing risk almost immediately.
- Coverage: As soon as data sources are connected, we instantly enumerate cloud assets and users and scan data at high speed across on-prem, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Our coverage gives a complete picture of where sensitive data lives and how it is being accessed. Other DSPMs have limited coverage and rely on sampling, giving you partial visibility.
- Deep functionality across your entire data estate: We are not just showing surface-level findings. We continuously analyze exposure, permissions, behavior, and risk, then automate remediation so teams are not forced to review and resolve issues one by one. Varonis is the only DSPM platform that ingests a full audit trail of activity to provide real-time alerting and complete forensics.
- Scale: Whether you are protecting a few core systems or a global data estate spanning hundreds of data sources, our architecture holds up without added operational burden. We scale coverage and performance together, so customers never have to choose between speed, simplicity, or comprehensive protection as their data footprint expands.
- Product security: We meet some of the most demanding standards in the industry. Our cloud-native platform is authorized at FedRAMP Moderate, one of the highest benchmarks for cloud security, and we pair that with certifications like SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, and multiple ISO standards covering security, cloud controls, and privacy.
Integrating with data sources
Automated deployment and discovery
- One-Script Installation: Run a single script that automatically downloads the collector image, Kubernetes artifacts, and completes the installation.
- Automatic Environment Detection: The script detects existing Kubernetes environments (K3S, kubectl, MicroK8s) and installs/configures K3S if needed, including network conflict detection and resolution.
- Airgap Support: For offline environments, the script fetches all required files from a private S3 bucket and configures local registries.
- Automatic Discovery: Varonis automatically discovers resources by inventorying what's available in a connected data store, such as enumerating all databases in a Databricks account or identifying all S3 buckets, RDS databases, and EC2 instances after an AWS account is onboarded. Data classification, permissions analysis, and event monitoring can begin without manual effort.
Flexible deployment options
- Multiple Platforms Supported: Varonis can be deployed on VMs, managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), AWS ECS, OpenShift, GCP, OKE, and Nutanix.
- Cloud-Native Integrations: AWS ECS and EKS deployments leverage managed services, reducing the need for manual cluster setup and advanced network configuration.
- Terraform Support: Future roadmap includes Terraform-based deployments for further automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
World-class deployment team
- White-Glove Deployment Services: Just-in-time scheduling with expert support to gain visibility into your environment and any customer requirements.
- Global Support: Deployment Engineers available in all major time zones to accommodate change windows, global customer footprints, and business continuity.
- Hands-free Deployment: Varonis will take care of all integrations, working with your administrators every step of the way.
Post-Deployment
- Easy Service Assignment: Collectors can be assigned to services during or after integration via a simple UI workflow.
- Centralized Monitoring: Classification Monitor provides a unified view of scan activity across all services.
- Self-Healing: Varonis SaaS continuously monitors system health and surfaces issues through its System Health Notifications center, ensuring admins are alerted to high‑severity platform diagnostics in real time. It also provides automated remediation and diagnostics through its cloud‑native architecture, which proactively identifies misconfigurations, risky permissions, and operational problems to maintain platform stability.
Future enhancements
- Broader Platform Support: Expansion to additional cloud and on-prem platforms.
- Enhanced Automation: More deployment options and secret management capabilities are on the roadmap.
From evaluation to production without missing a beat
Varonis’ turnkey deployment model delivers a seamless transition from proof of concept (POC) to production, eliminating the need for reinstallation and preserving all insights gathered during evaluation.
Unlike competitors that require separate environments and duplicate setup steps, Varonis enables customers to move directly into production with the same configuration, connectors, and risk models already in place. This continuity accelerates time-to-value, reduces operational overhead, and ensures organizations can act on findings immediately after purchase.
By removing friction and complexity, customers benefit from faster ROI, lower deployment costs, and immediate security posture improvement, while competitors often struggle with multi-phase onboarding and extended timelines. With lightweight private collectors, automated SaaS integrations, and pre-built policies ready from day one, Varonis offers not just ease of deployment but a competitive advantage that translates into reduced risk and improved compliance without delay.
Varonis deployment vs. other DSPM vendors
Here’s how our deployment stacks up against other vendors on the market.
Key Varonis differentiators:
- Only vendor with true incremental scanning: Scans only new/changed data in real-time vs. competitors requiring full rescans
- Only vendor with FedRAMP Moderate Authorization: First and only DSPM to achieve this certification (May 2025)
- Only vendor with native automated remediation: Built-in remediation engine vs. competitors relying on third-party ticketing/SOAR integrations
- True cloud-native deployment: Pure SaaS with lightweight collectors vs. competitors requiring customer-managed infrastructure (BigID, Securiti, Concentric AI all offer self-hosted options)
- Zero infrastructure burden: No VMs, pods, or significant customer infrastructure vs. Securiti’s VM pods and BigID/Concentric’s self-hosted requirements
Summary
Varonis SaaS delivers the fastest DSPM deployment in the industry, giving organizations immediate risk visibility and protection while competitors take days to weeks.
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