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Varonis Platform pros and cons

Vendor: Varonis
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

24/7 support is highly valuable, with quick responses and knowledgeable technical support.
Analytics and alerting features are excellent, providing useful insights into unusual behavior or access patterns.
Varonis Platform significantly improves data security and compliance, allowing for easy tracking and monitoring of activity.
Various reporting and telemetry features are user-friendly and configure easily, aiding in data governance and audits.
Remediation capabilities and the platform's ability to classify and manage data access enhance visibility and security.

CONS

Varonis Platform lacks cloud integration and automatic updates.
There is dependency on on-premises deployment for some components.
The calculation engine is slow when processing large datasets, which affects performance.
Varonis requires more access permissions for its core functions than competitors, causing data safety concerns.
Initial data scanning and indexing in large environments take significant time.
 

Varonis Platform Pros review quotes

ITSpecia0b06 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 11, 2019
The 24/7 support is the most valuable feature. They have been able to answer support questions pretty quickly.
SeniorEnc89a - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a tech services company
May 9, 2019
The analytics would have to be our most valuable feature.
reviewer1474485 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Admin at a university with 51-200 employees
Jan 12, 2021
On the Varonis side, technical support is phenomenal. Their ability to explain is very good, and they seem to be very knowledgeable. When I get an alert that doesn't quite make sense, they dive in there and kind of take me through it. That's very useful and very good. There are some false alerts, but it is better to have a false alert than no alert at all.
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reviewer1440831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
May 21, 2021
That alerting and reporting service is great.
reviewer2272818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisory IT Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
Sep 7, 2023
Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system.
reviewer2272818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisory IT Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
Sep 7, 2023
It can easily identify unusual behavior or access patterns that may pose a potential threat, while operating as a unified reporting system.
Frederic  Delos - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Mar 5, 2024
The telemetry to capture everything and the reports are very easy to configure without having a developer degree.
ROHIT CHAURASIYA - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at HCL Technologies
May 16, 2024
There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username.
Herman Pienaar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Consultant at Intalock Technologies
May 20, 2024
The solution's classification engine is highly configurable and efficient.
LM
Information Security Specialist at MindTree
Jun 11, 2024
I also appreciate the reporting feature, which allows for the extraction of various reports based on specific needs. These reports can be used for audit purposes, such as tracking changes in file locations or deletions.
 

Varonis Platform Cons review quotes

ITSpecia0b06 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 11, 2019
I would like it to have cloud integration.
SeniorEnc89a - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a tech services company
May 9, 2019
I'd like to see automatic updates for this solution. Currently, it's a manual process to update all the keywords
reviewer1474485 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Admin at a university with 51-200 employees
Jan 12, 2021
We have Microsoft Office 365. I just saw an article today which says that they're actually getting integrated with Microsoft Office 365, which would be a useful feature. For user-based reports, log on activity, and stuff like that, it doesn't seem to really be present like Log360. That could just be my inexperience with it. I've been dealing with it for only about two and a half months.
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reviewer1440831 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
May 21, 2021
The GUI should be more functional. There should be a process for connecting through Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.
reviewer2272818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisory IT Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
Sep 7, 2023
The product is very complicated.
reviewer2272818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisory IT Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
Sep 7, 2023
It is significantly complex.
Frederic  Delos - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Mar 5, 2024
For unstructured data monitoring, it's one of the top ones, if not the top one, due to its usability.
ROHIT CHAURASIYA - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at HCL Technologies
May 16, 2024
There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing.
Herman Pienaar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Consultant at Intalock Technologies
May 20, 2024
The solution's areas of improvement are the interface and the dependency on on-premises deployment for some components.
LM
Information Security Specialist at MindTree
Jun 11, 2024
One area for improvement is the calculation engine. When applying rules in Varonis, especially for large datasets (terabytes of data), the calculations can be slow and require time to process. Speeding up this process would be beneficial.