What's New in Varonis: September 2024

Discover Varonis' latest features, including Salesforce high-risk permissions remediation, SIEM and ticketing tool integrations, and expanded database coverage.
Nathan Coppinger
2 min read
Last updated October 11, 2024

This month, Varonis released new updates to help organizations remediate permissions risks, streamline security operations, and improve security posture.

Our new functionality includes:

Discover what’s new in this quick 2-minute video or continue reading for all the details.  

Salesforce high-risk permissions remediation

Varonis enhanced its industry-leading automation features in Salesforce that enable administrators to identify and revoke high-risk user permissions. These new capabilities prevent users from:

  • Exporting reports
  • Generating passwords that never expire
  • Managing authentication provider connections
  • Sharing report owner viewing permissions with other users

Read the blog to learn more.

Automatically revoke high-risk permissions — like the ability to export reports — from users and entitlements.

Revoke export report permission

Automatically revoke high-risk permissions — like the ability to export reports — from users and entitlements.

Amazon DynamoDB support

Varonis expands its cloud security capabilities to support Amazon DynamoDB, enabling organizations to discover, protect, and monitor critical data.

With this coverage expansion, organizations can:

  • Discover and classify sensitive data
  • Identify sensitive data exposure
  • Analyze and manage table permissions
  • Surface and fix misconfigurations
  • Monitor activity and detect emerging threats

Discover, protect, and monitor critical data in Amazon DynamoDB. 

DynamoDB

Discover, protect, and monitor critical data in Amazon DynamoDB. 

Ticketing workflow integrations

Organizations can now streamline remediation workflows by accessing Varonis alerts and misconfiguration insights, along with detailed recommendations and resolution instructions, directly within Jira and ServiceNow.

Create and send tickets to ServiceNow and Jira directly from the Varonis platform. 

Ticketing integration

Create and send tickets to ServiceNow and Jira directly from the Varonis platform. 

Bi-directional Splunk SIEM integration

Varonis provides bi-directional integration with Splunk, enabling security teams to view, manage, and close Varonis alerts directly within the SIEM platform. This integration enables SOC teams to streamline their alert management and improve their threat detection and response. 

Review, manage, and close Varonis alerts directly in Splunk. 

Splunk SIEM

Review, manage, and close Varonis alerts directly in Splunk. 

Security posture management risk categories

The Varonis Posture Management Dashboard includes new risk categories that allow security teams to better prioritize remediation and compliance efforts. Users can simply click on a category to view every related risk Varonis surfaces.

The new risk categories include:

  • Logging and monitoring
  • Access and identity
  • Data protection and exposure
  • Encryption
  • Backup and recovery

And more.

Categorize the security risks Varonis surfaces to simplify remediation efforts.

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Categorize the security risks Varonis surfaces to simplify remediation efforts.

Additionally, this update adds a new widget to Varonis' dynamic risk dashboards that present the top data risks across the organization to help prioritize risk reduction efforts.

View top data risks across the organization in Varonis' dynamic risk dashboards.

Tops data risks widgets

View top data risks across the organization in Varonis' dynamic risk dashboards.

Threat detection policy flow

Varonis now offers flow diagrams for each threat policy, helping incident responders understand alert triggers, detection methods, and remediation focus areas.

Open a threat detection policy to learn more about the logic and detection workflow. 

Threat detection policy flow v2

Open a threat detection policy to learn more about the logic and detection workflow. 

Keep up with the latest Varonis product releases. 

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For more information, including release notes, customer training, and how-to videos, visit the Varonis Community.

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What should I do now?

Below are three ways you can continue your journey to reduce data risk at your company:

1

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2

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3

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