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Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager vs Varonis Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Setup Cost

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Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is seen as cost-efficient and manageable for enterprises already using Microsoft services.
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Varonis Platform's pricing varies from average to expensive, better suited for large enterprises with distinct licensing needs.
 

Customer Service

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Varonis Platform's technical support is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, despite occasional delays and team transfers.
 

Room For Improvement

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5.1
Varonis Platform needs cloud integration, improved performance, enhanced troubleshooting, and better interface to address complexity and dependency issues.
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
7.2
Varonis Platform is scalable for large environments, especially SaaS, but expanding requires expertise; handles increased data loads efficiently.
 

Stability Issues

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6.9
Varonis Platform is stable, reliable, but faces performance issues with new plugins and large data, needing permanent fixes.
 

Valuable Features

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Sentiment score
7.9
Varonis Platform offers 24/7 support, strong behavior analytics, data security, and compliance features, praised for monitoring and flexibility.
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Purview Complianc...
Ranking in Data Governance
13th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (22nd)
Varonis Platform
Ranking in Data Governance
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (13th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (4th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (8th), Compliance Management (8th), Ransomware Protection (9th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is 1.3%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Varonis Platform is 9.1%, up from 7.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Governance
 

Featured Reviews

Sachin Vinay - PeerSpot reviewer
Really good encryption mechanism prevents man-in-the-middle and other types of attacks
It helps you configure the system and even offers ideas on how to resolve important security concerns in an organization. It lists out all the issues that happen when we move data from the cloud to on-premises. It gives you a detailed view of the known issues and helps with industry standards so that the cloud features completely align with on-premises. We can see whether our data security is matching the industry standards. It even offers prompts and ideas on items that you may not even have been aware of. It provides us with ideas on how to improve our proficiency in handling data in the cloud. And you can add notes for others in the reporting feature, so if there are any issues, others can refer to them. The fact that Purview delivers data protection across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments is also important to us. We have most of our data on Microsoft but part of our data, our university websites, for example, is on Amazon AWS. We move data between clouds and also from on-premises to the cloud. There is no other mechanism to check if this data is moving according to industry standards for such things as * security * bandwidth * SSL encryption mechanism. We would not be able to see these metrics without Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager. It gives you a dashboard on how to improve your setup on the Microsoft cloud or even AWS. And it gives us the same information if we push data from on-premises to cloud. Also, our users have a mix of operating systems. Most use Windows but there are also people who use macOS and Linux. With Purview, we can easily find the issues in Linux or more complex operating systems like macOS. We are notified of all issues with the help of Purview Compliance Manager.
Frederic  Delos - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers the ability to identify sensitive areas, allowing you to drill down into the sensitive data
The most effective feature for me is its ability to identify sensitive areas, allowing you to drill down into the sensitive data, provided you have access, to determine whether it's a false positive or a true positive. That's the best thing for me, out of all of it. It's got everything, like other ones, but I like to be able to look at something if I'm doing forensics on the alert and say, "Okay, do I really need to do something with this?" For example, we don't want sensitive data in our OneDrive. So it identifies the sensitive data that's possibly in the OneDrive. And what I can do is look at it and identify whether it's actually sensitive data in Datalert or whether it looks like sensitive data, but I know it's a false positive. If it is a false positive, I can basically say ignore this pattern based on X, Y, and Z, you know, whether it's Redjax or keyword proximity. So I like that. With other tools, I gotta go through a whole process because it's a little bit more complex. Here, I can tag it and bag it in one shot. And the next good time I scan, it slips over it. So it helps in that.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager?
We have more visibility of data and how it is being shared.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager?
Pricing and licensing are usually user-based, especially for cloud solutions, and seem fair.
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager?
I am using the Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager primarily for applying regulations and ensuring compliance with internal regulations like communication policies and PLB policies. It helps in di...
What do you like most about Varonis Platform?
The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand w...
What needs improvement with Varonis Platform?
The solution's areas of improvement are the interface and the dependency on on-premises deployment for some components. The interface has improved with the move to a SaaS model, but aspects could s...
What is your primary use case for Varonis Platform?
Customers use the product to identify sensitive information, correlate it with access permissions, and utilize its automation engine for remediation. It includes fixing broken permissions and manag...
 

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Microsoft Compliance Manager
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