What's New in Varonis: May 2024

Varonis is bringing a UI refresh, easier policy management, expanded automated remediation capabilities in AWS, automation rollback, and privacy automation.   
Shane Walsh
1 min read
Last updated May 30, 2024

Varonis is bringing the heat this May, with product updates that include a UI refresh, easier policy management, privacy automation, and more.   

Our new functionality includes: 

Discover what’s new for Varonis customers in this quick three-minute video or continue reading for all the details.

User interface refresh  

Take note of our user interface changes, including options for managing data discovery policies directly, rolling back automation, and updating our UI with the new Varonis branding 

Our new UI brings multiple changes and features, including a fresh color scheme.

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Our new UI brings multiple changes and features, including a fresh color scheme.

Manage data discovery policies in web UI  

Varonis users can now view data discovery policies directly in the web interface. See which policies are available and active, and view controls to turn specific discovery policies on and off 

Review and manage data discovery policies directly in the web app. 

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Review and manage data discovery policies directly in the web app. 

Automation rollbacks  

To give our users more confidence in deploying automation, Varonis has expanded our rollback options, allowing you to:   

  • Remove direct permissions for dynamic groups 
  • Remove direct permissions for public groups 
  • Remove direct permissions for org-wide groups 
  • Remove direct permissions for non-org users 
  • Remove direct permissions for users from a specific domain 
  • Disable stale users 

Confidently deploy automated remediation with rollback options.

Rolling back automations

Confidently deploy automated remediation with rollback options.

Privacy automation  

Existing customers can now gain access to our Privacy Automation module, a PII search engine that enables easy and efficient DSARs and legal e-hold across cloud and on-premises environments.  

Locate files and folders containing relevant PII and export them in an easy-to-read CSV file format.  

Easily comply with DSARs and e-hold requests. 

privacy auto

Easily comply with DSARs and e-hold requests. 

Expanded remediation in AWS — coming soon!    

In addition to existing automation for removing excessive permissions, fixing misconfigurations, enforcing data loss prevention (DLP), and more, the new update will provide greater automation for AWS environments, including the ability to automatically: 

  • Remediate publicly exposed AWS S3 buckets 
  • Remove stale users, roles, and access keys in AWS at scale 

Automatically apply public access blocks to S3 buckets.

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Automatically apply public access blocks to S3 buckets.

 

Keep up with the latest Varonis product releases. 

Varonis’ offerings move fast! Discover product updates you may have missed on our blog.   For more information, including release notes and how-to videos, visit the Varonis Community. 

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1

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