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Varonis
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Varonis Systems, is a privately-held data security software company headquartered in the United States. Varonis produces software to help organizations manage and control access to unstructured and semi-structured data repositories, including file servers, NAS, SharePoint, UNIX, and e-mail. Varonis software runs on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL, and employs a distributed collection mechanism to ensure that monitoring is as non-intrusive as possible. Varonis claims to have over 1400 customers globally, including many in the financial services, government, healthcare, and retail industries. History Varonis Systems was founded in early 2005 by networking and storage experts Yaki Faitelson and Ohad Korkus after spending years in the development, design and implementation of large scale networking and data management infrastructures for NetVision and NetApp. The duo realized that the processes for monitoring who has access to sensitive data, finding non-IT data owners and managing and controlling access to unstructured data were fundamentally flawed since they were highly manual, resource intensive, and rarely successful. Varonis's investors include Accel Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners, and Pitango Venture Capital. Key Milestones 2012 * 5.7 released * DatAdvantage for Directory Services released 2011 * 5.6 released 2010 * 5.5 released * DatAdvantage for Exchange released 2009 * 5.1 released * IDU Classification Framework released * 5.0 released * DatAdvantage for SharePoint released 2008 * 4.0 released 2007 * 3.0 released * DatAdvantage for UNIX released * DataPrivilege released 2006 * DatAdvantage 2.0 released 2005 * DatAdvantage for Windows 1.0 released * Company founded Focus Most organizations have valuable information on file shares, intranets, and in e-mail stores such as Microsoft Exchange that too many people have access to, and where access activity isn’t audited. This not only puts data at risk, but also makes data very difficult to manage— data owners are difficult to find, access controls are difficult to analyze and optimize, and authorization processes are manual and error prone. Varonis helps organizations manage and protect unstructured data through metadata framework technology. By collecting and analyzing permissions, user/group, actual access activity, and content metadata, Varonis software helps organizations optimize authorization, audit use, and alert on potential abuse. Varonis currently offers seven products that present data in two interfaces: DatAdvantage and DataPrivilege. DatAdvantage is typically used by IT staff, and DataPrivilege is generally used by data owners and end users to automate entitlement reviews and authorization workflow. Data Governance Varonis software provides unstructured data governance by helping to identify and involve data owners as well as automatically identify where users have excessive access. By ensuring that data is only accessible to those who need it, varonis helps prevent against data misuse and social engineering attacks. Analytics Varonis software keeps a continuous baseline of user behavior on unstructured data stores and provides analytics that can alert when activity spikes. This type of data analysis may be used as a form of automated misuse detection. Technology Varonis technology is built upon a software framework designed to facilitate the collection, processing, analysis and presentation of metadata. Specifically, Varonis gathers four types of metadata: * File system information, including ACL permissions * Users and groups from directory services and local server accounts * Access activity, including file system, Exchange mailbox, and SharePoint site auditing * Data sensitivity and classification information Varonis software is designed to monitor and help govern access to unstructured data, including identifying and involving non-IT data owners. The underlying framework is presented through interfaces contained within the company's software products, including DatAdvantage and DataPrivilege. Varonis believe understanding how access control exists, is granted and is used is critical to ensuring that only the right people have access to the right sets of data, and that answering basic questions about unstructured data security is impossible without the right intelligence and automation. Gartner has cited Varonis as one vendor providing Big Data analytics to information security. In June 2012, Varonis announced DatAnywhere, a product design to provide cloud-like remote file syncing of file share data to remote devices. Products Varonis currently sells and supports seven products. * DatAdvantage for Windows - also supports CIFS-based NAS such as NetApp, EMC VNX/Celerra and HP IBRIX X9000 * DatAdvantage for UNIX * DatAdvantage for SharePoint * DatAdvantage for Exchange * DatAdvantage for Directory Services * IDU Classification Framework * DataPrivilege * DatAnywhere Patents Varonis has been assigned a number of technology patents in the US, UK and elsewhere related to data management and metadata analysis, including "Visualization of Access Permission Status," "Automatic Detection of Abnormal Data Access Activities" and "Method and apparatus for ascertaining data access permission of groups of users to groups of data." Industry recognition 2012 * SC Magazine Europe - Best Network Security * SIIA CODiE Awards Finalist - Best International Data Protection Solution 2011 * BCS UK IT Business IT Innovation of the Year Finalist * BCS UK IT Security Innovation of the Year Finalist 2009 * Network Products Guide Best Products and Services: Best Data Protection * Gartner Cool Vendor in Risk Management and Compliance * SIIA CODiE Awards Finalist: Storage Solution 2008 * Fast Company Fast 50 Reader Favorite 2007 * Information Magazine Innovative Solution Award for Enterprise Content Management * Byte and Switch Top 10 Startups to Watch * 2007 Morgan Stanley Innovation Award Partners Varonis has strategic integrated technology partnerships with the following vendors: * EMC Corporation * NetApp * RSA * McAfee * HP Selected customers Key customers Varonis has cited include: * Conde Nast Publications * GDF Suez * ATB Financial * EMC * Baillie Gifford * MoMA * AXA * Grant Thornton International * SanDisk * Tommy Bahama * Toyota Financial Services * Juniper Networks * Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce * San Diego Union Tribune * Altran * Hit Entertainment * Arnold Worldwide * DSM * DQS * Aegis Media * Atlas Air * Amundi Asset Management * M-Systems * Ziggo * MFS Investment Management * 
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