Voltage by OpenText vs. Varonis Data Security Platform

A compliance tool - if you are aiming for your organization to become PCI compliant or even POPIA/GDPR compliance this will aid you in your journey. Protection of data within your organization in the event of a data breach. Test Data Management, in the use case of your Developers having too much production data to test with, we can encrypt the data and then move to the necessary areas showing almost real life data sets to be used.

Incentivized

For sure it is well suited for companies that need to keep track of their data and that are willing to pay for it. It does an excelent job of monitoring the file's access, with zero impact on Storage's performance. Sometimes it is not enough to be able to restore the data. Sometimes in critical incidents, managers and heads demand to know who caused it. Thanks to Varonis we were able to give them this information easily and in a short time.

Incentivized

• Encryption
• Format Preserving Encryption
• Scalable
• Simple licensing models

Incentivized

• This tool allows us to protect sensitive data.
• It also improves our ability to maintain compliance with many different requirements.
• The tool also permits auditing capabilities that we did not have prior to its implementation.
• The tools also proactively alerts us to potential ransomware related events.

Incentivized

• Its web-portal is pretty bare bones, unlike some competitors that are more feature-rich
• Its documentation is also voluminous, making it hard to find something since it is spread across multiple manuals for particular features.
• It doesn't support IMAP connections, unlike some of its competitors.

Incentivized

• Implementation can be challenging in some areas and can only be executed by the vendor
• Implementation can only be executed by the vendor and additional work can be chargeable
• Licensing can be improved upon
• Agent based so implementation can be longer than expected

Incentivized

I wish the cost was a little bit lower and increase functionality and features would give it 10/10.

Incentivized

Support has always been very responsive and addressed any issues we may have had in the past. Some local engineers are willing to come onsite or work over a web session to discuss creating a new rule set or look at some issues. Getting issues address has never been a problem. There was one feature we had trouble getting to function correctly, but support and local engineers were willing to work with us as much as needed to get it working correctly for our organization.

Incentivized

I think SecureMail is showing its age -- it is based on the Voltage product that HPE purchased a few years ago and hasn't really been updated since then substantially. Its documentation and web portal aren't as useful as some of the other products, and Zix has better DLP integration that is part of the base product, rather than an add-on

Incentivized

When it comes to data security we all want something stable with good protocol practices. Varonis is good at data analyzing, detecting threats, taking actions and compliance. Varonis needs lots of resources to run and it is somewhat expensive. But still I believe that Varonis does a good job among the other competitors

Incentivized

• Decided not to use the product after looking at competitors.

Incentivized

• Varonis has only been a positive impact on our environment, but helping us close security holes that we didn't know existed.
• This product has also provided piece of mind by watching our environment for Malware attacks and taking automatic actions if necessary.
• This software does require a fair amount of server resources, but fortunately can be hosted in a virtual environment and has made this need easier to handle.