Varonis

What do you like best about the product?

What stands out most about the Varonis Data Security Platform is its unified approach to data visibility and behavioral analytics. It seamlessly maps identities and access across complex hybrid environments—AWS, SaaS, and on‑premises—while automatically classifying sensitive data and establishing a baseline for normal behavior. Its AI continuously calculates and reduces the "blast radius" of over‑permissioned files, enabling abnormal activity to be detected in real time. It also scales smoothly across petabytes of data through incremental scanning, avoiding performance bottlenecks and high infrastructure costs.

What do you dislike about the product?

While Varonis is incredibly powerful for data visibility, its biggest drawback is its pricing and steep total cost of ownership (ROI), which can heavily strain budgets for mid-sized organizations. Because the platform is highly modular, the costs quickly stack up as you add coverage for different SaaS apps, cloud providers, and automated remediation features. Additionally, the UI/UX and onboarding present a sharp learning curve; configuring policies, clean-up rules, and data classification labels requires dedicated, specialized administrative overhead just to prevent an influx of false-positive alerts. Finally, while its incremental scanning is optimized, deploying its on-premises collectors or orchestrating massive initial scans across legacy environments can cause temporary performance friction and demand substantial infrastructure resources.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Varonis addresses the critical problem of unstructured data sprawl and identity over-privilege across complex cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. By automatically mapping where sensitive data resides and who has access to it, it continuously removes excessive permissions to enforce a strict least-privilege model. The main benefit is that it significantly reduces your environment's "blast radius"—preventing a single compromised account or internal AI tool from accessing or leaking confidential files. Furthermore, because its behavioral analytics establish a baseline of normal activity and alert on anomalies in real time, it shifts your team from manual, reactive log-hunting to automated, self-healing data defense.

What do you like best about the product?

Data classification engine is very useful

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes support can be slow with MDDR responses

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to quickly label our data

What do you like best about the product?

MDDR gives us piece of mind 24/7 and the extensive logs

What do you dislike about the product?

Occasionally we have to submit feature requests

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allowing us to see in depth logs on all our user and data activity

What do you like best about the product?

Intuitive UI with session-based logging that’s easy to manage.

What do you dislike about the product?

The way to see the log of prompt and response is not really clear.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Session based logging. Competitor doesn’t have it. Useful to learn about the context of a session instead of purely looking at individual packets.

What do you like best about the product?

Locating old share point links. Helps keep company secure

What do you dislike about the product?

Find the interface difficult to navigate sometimes. Feel positioning of some info could be better

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Visability of data and ai in the company. As well as stale links and over permissions

What do you like best about the product?

Visability and ease of use, gives us peace of mind that alerts are being seen

What do you dislike about the product?

Slow to alert, filewalker is very slow and could do with an overhaul

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Visability, security, knowing what's going on with our users behaviour

What do you like best about the product?

Varonis has really helped tidy up our O365 environment and after today's presentations im sure we will be moving forward with more of the services

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes it can be a little difficult to navigate but that will pass with time

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Any any links have been neutralise and

What do you like best about the product?

Strong data visibility, risk insights, and automated controls across sensitive data.

What do you dislike about the product?

Can be complex to tune initially, with alerts needing careful prioritisation.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps identify sensitive data exposure, risky permissions, and unusual activity. This improves visibility, reduces risk, and makes investigations faster.

What do you like best about the product?

I like how easy it is to look into events and track back what’s happening. Having the Mddr service in place gives us peace of mind, knowing we have support from a dedicated team.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some parts of the server-based UI feel a bit outdated and clunky, and it could really use a refresh to make entering policies easier.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Varonis helps us massively with auditing our data and understanding the risk it poses. It has also helped us manage our ISO27001 audit by quickly providing the reports and views that we need.

What do you like best about the product?

All information in one dashboard
Automations to remediate
MDDR service

What do you dislike about the product?

Ability to search for specific folders is hard when multiple are named the same. Be useful to see the full url

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Iso2700 compliance for user access and revoking links