Data discovery is not data security.
Concentric AI focuses on AI-driven data discovery for DLP use cases, but stops there.
Varonis turns discovery into security by correlating sensitivity, identity, permissions, behavior, and activity - exposing real risk with the context needed to act.
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Feature Comparison
Varonis gives you the security context
Concentric AI cannot.
| CAPABILITY | VARONIS | CONCENTRIC AI |
| AI-Powered Data Discovery & Classification | Yes, across SaaS, IaaS, on-prem and hybrid | Yes, primarily cloud and SaaS |
| Permission & Access Governance | Deep analysis of effective permissions with least privilege automation | ❌ Limited visibility; relies on external remediation tools |
| Automated Remediation | Yes; auto-fix excessive access and exposure |
Remediation is limited & inconsistent across platforms, with no on‑prem support |
| Behavioral Threat Detection | Yes; real-time detection of insider threats, compromised accounts, and abnormal behavior | ❌ Not a core capability |
| AI Security | Full-stack AI security: AI-SPM, red teaming, runtime protection, and detection & response | GenAI coverage in progress via acquisition— no red teaming or runtime protection |
| Managed Detection & Response | Yes - 24x7 expert-backed MDR | ❌ IR Services not offered |
| Contextual Forensic Audit Trail | Comprehensive audit trail across platforms for investigations | ❌ Limited investigative depth |
| Scalability | Purpose-built for multi-petabyte hybrid enterprise environments | Reported scaling challenges with unstructured data especially on-prem |
| Customer Success | Local dedicated TAM included at no cost | Post-sales support aligned to APAC business hours – premium coverage is paid add on |
Concentric AI stops at visibility
Concentric AI shows you where sensitive data lives and who can access it, but it doesn't monitor behavior, detect threats, or actively prevent misuse.
Varonis combines AI-powered classification with real-time behavioral threat detection and automated least privilege enforcement, so you're not just identifying exposure, you're reducing it continuously.
Why it matters: Visibility without enforcement doesn't stop breaches. Data risk is about access and activity, not just location.
Concentric AI leaves remediation to you
Concentric AI identifies excessive access, but fixing it is manual.
Varonis automatically removes risky permissions, enforces least privilege, and continuously remediates new exposure as it appears, without adding operational overhead.
Why it matters: If remediation isn't automated, risk builds up faster than your team can fix it.
Concentric can't stop active threats like ransomware
Concentric has no behavioral threat detection, no real-time activity monitoring, and no forensic investigation layer. It cannot surface insider threats, compromised accounts, ransomware activity, or active data exfiltration.
Varonis audits every data access event, applies advanced behavioral analytics across users and service accounts, and backs every customer with 24x7x365 Managed Data Detection and Response (MDDR) to investigate anomalies and contain incidents before data is lost.
Why it matters: When an active threat is in your environment, posture visibility alone doesn't stop it. Detection, response, and forensics do.
"We’ve set up malware recognition and automated remediation. If we detect malware on one of our servers, it immediately locks down that client session, logs them out, and notifies us."
Brett Brickey
CIO, TPMG
"Varonis is the sole reason we were able to react so quickly, especially since the alert was detected outside of business hours. We were able to immediately understand and identify where the ransomware behavior occurred. It allowed us to invoke countermeasures and thus prevent the behavior from traversing through our network."
Al Faella
CTO, Prospect Capital
"It’s obvious Varonis is innovating at a rapid pace. They’re being very, very aggressive and making improvements to the platform that I can see on a week-to-week basis. It’s pretty amazing."
Beau Monday
Chief Information Security Officer, Punahou School
Frequently asked questions
Concentric AI is primarily an AI-based data classification tool designed to support DLP initiatives.
Varonis is a full data security platform with comprehensive DSPM capabilities.
No. Concentric AI has no behavioral analytics engine, no real-time activity monitoring, and no ability to detect insider threats, compromised accounts, ransomware, or exfiltration as they happen.
Varonis provides all of these natively, backed by 24x7x365 MDDR.
Concentric AI focuses on identifying sensitive data and highlighting risky sharing or access patterns.
Varonis goes further by combining data discovery with identity context, real‑time activity monitoring, and automated remediation. This allows Varonis to not only surface risk but actively reduce it by tightening permissions, detecting suspicious behavior, and enforcing least‑privilege access.
Concentric AI offers Managed DSPM as a paid add-on.
Varonis Concierge is included for every customer at no additional cost.
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“I was amazed by how quickly Varonis was able to classify data and uncover potential data exposures during the free assessment. It was truly eye-opening.”
Michael Smith, CISO
"What I like about Varonis is that they come from a data-centric place. Other products protect the infrastructure, but they do nothing to protect your most precious commodity — your data."
Deborah Haworth, Director of Information Security
“Varonis’ support is unprecedented, and their team continues to evolve and improve their products to align with the rapid pace of industry evolution.”
Al Faella, CTO