Varonis Joins NetApp Alliance Partner Program

Varonis Systems Inc. has joined the NetApp
Alliance Partner Program.

The collaboration between Varonis and NetApp
provides enterprises worldwide with an integrated data governance solution that
enables users to gain visibility into and control of unstructured data stored
within NetApp unified storage systems and file shares.

"Nearly every organization today is
suffering from profound organizational failures because they are unable to
answer the most basic questions about data, such as, ‘Who has and should have
access to it? Who is accessing it? Who owns it? Which data is sensitive?,’"
said David Gibson, Director of Strategic Accounts and Technical Marketing for
Varonis. "By integrating our Data
Governance Suite with NetApp unified storage systems, we can offer a comprehensive
data governance and storage solution for NetApp’s extensive customer base."

Data
governance solutions like DatAdvantage and metadata frameworks such as the Varonis Metadata Framework are a cost-effective way for
organizations to manage and protect their unstructured data by providing
actionable intelligence on access controls, content, and access activity.
Organizations can employ this metadata information to support IT initiatives
such as entitlement reviews, compliance audits, data ownership identification,
records management, domain and data migrations, consolidations, archiving and
retention projects.

About the
Varonis Metadata Framework,
four types
of metadata are critical for data governance:

• User and
  Group Information: from Active Directory, LDAP, NAS, SharePoint, etc.
• Permissions
  and File System Information: knowing who can access what data in which
  containers
• Access
  Activity: knowing which users do access what data, when and what they’ve done
• Sensitive
  Content Indicators: knowing which files contain items of sensitivity and
  importance, and where they reside.

The Varonis
Metadata Framework non-intrusively collects this metadata, generates
metadata where existing metadata is lacking (e.g. its file system filters and
content inspection technologies), pre-processes it, normalizes it, analyzes it,
stores it, and presents it to IT administrators in an interactive
interface.