Today, we are excited to announce Varonis Next-Gen DAM, a new approach to database security that overcomes the challenges of legacy solutions to prevent data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance.
For years, database activity monitoring (DAM) has been a necessary evil—an obligation driven more by checking a box than driving security outcomes or simplifying compliance. Legacy DAM vendors like Imperva and Guardium were built for a different era: one where deploying hundreds of agents and monitoring databases in isolation was considered acceptable.
The AI era demands a new approach to data security. The days of fragmented data security products are over. Now, users and DBAs are not the only ones accessing databases. AI agents can directly query databases and execute actions autonomously – raising the risk of a data breach exponentially. In the AI era, Database security is of the utmost importance.
Varonis Next-Gen DAM is agentless, deploys quickly, and requires near-zero operational overhead. As part of the Varonis Data Security Platform, Varonis Next-Gen DAM integrates into an end-to-end approach to data security, enabling organizations to continuously reduce their sensitive data exposure and respond to threats automatically.
The Problem with Traditional DAM
Legacy DAM solutions are plagued by complexity and manual overhead. They take years to deploy and require hardware and multiple FTEs to operate. Even when deployed successfully, legacy DAM rarely provides more than a compliance checkbox. They offer limited visibility and struggle to correlate activity with real identities. As a result, security teams are left in the dark, unable to detect threats or enforce meaningful policies.
Legacy DAM vs Next-Gen DAM at a glance
A New Approach: Agentless, Cloud-Native DAM
Next-generation DAM is radically different. Varonis Next-Gen DAM is architected from the ground up to overcome the challenges inherent in legacy DAM solutions:
- Agentless: No more fragile agents or appliances. Monitor thousands of databases—cloud, on-prem, managed, or unmanaged—with nothing to install, manage, or upgrade.
- Scalable: Deploy in weeks, not years. Scale effortlessly across thousands of databases. No appliances to manage, no database upgrades to coordinate, no FTEs to dedicate.
- Unified: Integrated into Varonis’ leading Data Security Platform for complete visibility and control across your entire data estate.
Delivering security outcomes with Next-Gen DAM
Varonis Next-Gen DAM includes capabilities that deliver security outcomes far beyond what legacy DAM offers.
Activity monitoring
Capture every database query, transaction, and access event in the cloud or on-premises, with a complete audit trail of who accessed which data, when, and how.
Monitor every query, transaction, and access event
Monitor every query, transaction, and access event
Data discovery and classification
Understand which databases contain your most sensitive data and determine what’s exposed, at risk, or inactive.
Identify sensitive data automatically
Identify sensitive data automatically
Identity protection & access control
Connect database permissions to corporate identities for a complete picture of which users, apps, and agents can read, modify, or delete critical data.
Determine effective access in one click and right-size automatically
Determine effective access in one click and right-size automatically
Automated remediation
Revoke excessive permissions, mask sensitive data, and enforce other security policies automatically. Reduce time to resolution and ensure that your data is secure.
Fix misconfigurations with a few clicks or automatically
Fix misconfigurations with a few clicks or automatically
User and entity behavior analytics
UEBA creates a behavioral baseline for user activity to detect abnormal behavior and insider threats. Only UEBA can detect high-fidelity threats, like when a bad actor with stolen credentials is moving laterally across the environment and block suspicious activity and sensitive data exfiltration attempts.
Detect and remediate threats automatically
Detect and remediate threats automatically
Unified data security
Varonis Next-Gen DAM is a part of the broader Varonis Data Security Platform, providing unified visibility, security, and control across all data stores and applications. With Varonis Next-Gen DAM, database security is no longer the domain of DBAs and a blind spot for security teams. Instead, security teams have a single pane of glass to understand the security of their data—wherever it resides: structured or unstructured, in the cloud or on-premises, and across dozens of business-critical applications.
