Varonis Enhances CSPM Capabilities to Protect Cloud Data

Today, we are excited to announce enhanced cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities. Together with Varonis’ world-class SSPM and DSPM capabilities, these capabilities provide unmatched protection for sensitive data in cloud environments.

As cloud adoption accelerates, so does complexity. Security teams are overwhelmed with thousands of configurations to manage across cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. CSPM plays a crucial role in securing cloud environments, including identifying misconfigurations, enforcing security policies, and reducing risk across cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

With Varonis’ enhanced CSPM capabilities, organizations can effortlessly reduce their blast radius and improve their cloud data security, including:

• Detecting more than 600 cloud misconfigurations and risks
• Integrating with Wiz and Azure Policy to ingest risks
• Gaining unified protection across the cloud with CSPM, DSPM, and SSPM

In this blog, we’ll explore how these updates help security teams gain greater control over their cloud environments and protect the sensitive data within.

Enhanced CSPM

Varonis now identifies more than 600 security risks and misconfigurations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This expanded coverage gives security teams greater visibility into potential security risks, ranging from overly permissive IAM roles to exposed storage buckets and misconfigured EC2 settings. 

By surfacing these risks directly within the Varonis platform, teams can quickly assess their cloud security posture and automatically remediate issues before attackers can exploit weaknesses and exposure.

Surface risks and misconfigurations from Wiz and Azure Policy

In addition to detecting risks natively in the Varonis Platform, Varonis now integrates with Azure Policy and Wiz to ingest misconfigurations and risks identified by these tools, such as publicly accessible EKS clusters and AWS IAM policies granting full administrative privileges. These findings are consolidated into a single, unified view, allowing security teams to avoid switching between multiple dashboards or manually correlating results.

Correlate risks with data sensitivity, identities, and regulatory frameworks

Unlike standalone posture management solutions, Varonis correlates misconfigurations with sensitive data and privileged identities. Combining CSPM findings with Varonis’ industry-leading data classification, effective permissions mapping, and identity risk analysis provides a greater understanding of an organization’s blast radius and where sensitive data is actually at risk.

Additionally, Varonis benchmarks security posture with frameworks and regulations like NIST, HIPAA, and ISO, to identify configuration drift and uncover compliance gaps. 

For example, a misconfigured S3 storage bucket isn’t just a technical oversight—it represents a significant business risk when it contains sensitive data like personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property. Varonis helps security teams go beyond surface-level severity by prioritizing remediation based on actual data exposure and compliance gaps.

Along with proactively identifying security risks, Varonis continuously monitors activity and correlates identity posture with misconfigured resources to detect potential threats. For instance, if a dormant account without multi-factor authentication (MFA) suddenly begins exploiting the aforementioned misconfigured S3 bucket and accessing sensitive data, Varonis flags this behavior as suspicious, highlighting a possible threat that should be addressed immediately.

Streamline risk remediation

Identifying risks is only half the battle—remediating them quickly and effectively is just as important. Varonis provides:

• Actionable recommendations tailored to each misconfiguration
• Step-by-step remediation guidance to reduce guesswork
• Integrations with ITSM tools like Jira and ServiceNow for seamless ticketing
• Automated remediation options to accelerate response and reduce manual effort

These capabilities help teams close the loop faster, reduce risk exposure, and maintain a stronger security posture with less overhead.

The Unified Platform for securing cloud data

With these enhancements, Varonis becomes a central hub for CSPM, DSPM, and SSPM.

Knowing where your sensitive data exists, who can access it, and what users are doing with it are all critical questions that need answers to ensure compliance and protect it from cyberattacks. Varonis uniquely combines these key security aspects in one unified solution.

Varonis not only improves operational efficiency and provides greater context but also enhances collaboration between security, IT, and compliance teams. Everyone works from the same source of truth, with consistent context and prioritization.

This unified approach eliminates silos and enables teams to manage all types of security risks — across cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and the data within — in one place.

At Varonis, we’re on a mission to deliver automated security outcomes with a holistic approach to data security. Our Unified Data Security Platform installs in just minutes and protects your sensitive data wherever it resides, including cloud, SaaS, and data center.

Ready to simplify and strengthen your cloud security strategy? Request a demo today.