Despite what Varonis and its competitors tell you, proper data security goes beyond data. Data classification and activity monitoring aren’t DLP, and mitigation isn’t prevention either.
If you’re frustrated with Varonis’ overhyped marketing, attachment to any security acronym that’s hot, and their exorbitant price, give us a shout!
4.5 (143 reviews)
Capabilities
Data Discovery
& Access
Attack Surface Visibility
Preventative technologies
Data Loss Prevention
Active Directory Security
Varonis is blind to the location of your data and needs to be explicitly told.
Netwrix automatically discovers where your data exists, eliminating blind spots so you can properly manage risk.
Varonis’ “silver bullet” falls short of comprehensive in the real world, where security across data, identity, and infrastructure layers is crucial to preventing compromise.
At Netwrix, we recognize that data security goes beyond data alone. Our solutions address security risks across data, identity, and infrastructure attack surfaces.
Varonis cannot block.
Netwrix uses patented prevention techniques to surpass native security controls, blocking unauthorized changes, authentication, data access, exfiltration, and weak passwords.
Varonis promotes its DLP capabilities but lacks the ability to prevent data exfiltration.
Netwrix offers the industry's most comprehensive Active Directory and Entra ID security portfolio, ensuring directories are clean, properly configured, monitored, and tightly controlled.
Varonis’ Active Directory and Entra ID capabilities are largely limited to auditing, reporting, and alerting.
Netwrix’s leading Endpoint DLP prevents data exfiltration across dozens of egress points (USB, web apps, printers, etc.) on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The Varonis Alternative that Helps You See the Whole Picture
With comprehensive, in-depth solutions spanning the data, identity, and infrastructure threat surfaces, Netwrix not only helps you see more, but also implement actual safeguards and technical enforcement that prevent threats to your data security.
Mitigate the risks around your sensitive data by reducing access to the minimum, proactively pinpointing conditions that could lead to a breach and automating threat mitigation.
Save valuable IT time and ensure accurate provisioning by enabling users to request access directly from the people who know who actually needs what access to which data: the data owners.
Maintain strict adherence to least privilege by making it easy for data owners to regularly review permissions to their data.
Detect even advanced complex attacks, including insider threats, in their early stages and automate your incident response to shut down identity and data threats immediately.
Empower your security teams with comprehensive visibility into all related security events, enabling effective investigation, incident reporting, and targeted recovery efforts.
Improve your data security posture by understanding how incidents start and unfold.
Ensure endpoint data loss prevention across all your endpoints, regardless of the operating system they run on. Netwrix's real-time DLP solution actively monitors and safeguards your sensitive data, preventing breaches, unauthorized sharing and malicious exfiltration to achieve regulatory compliance.
Stay protected even offline. Netwrix enables continious monitoring and data information protection even when your devices are in transit or in areas with limited connectivity.
Prevent unauthorized access and data leaks by ensuring that sensitive data is only accessed, copied, or transferred with explicit authorization from an administrator.
Discover your blind spots by scaning tens of thousands of endpoints to identify potential footholds for attackers.
Remove unnecessary administrative accounts from all endpoints in a single click, ensuring just-in-time access to reduce the risk of installing malware or critical security settings being altered.
Get visibility over your attack surface with dashboards tailored to executives and IT pros. View all accounts and activity to have situational awareness of privileged activity.
Netwrix helps us be more proactive. We can quickly catch malicious activity in the network we might not otherwise see. Our sensitive data is more secure because Netwrix enables us to know exactly where it resides and who has access to it. I don’t want to think of life without Netwrix. It makes things so much easier.
Holly McCoy, Senior Information Systems Officer
First National Bank Minnesota
Hull College
Even if you enforce least privilege and trust your employees as much as we do, you still need to know exactly who did what, when and where, so you can detect internal threats or hackers in time. You want to know that your sensitive data is safe — that is what Netwrix can tell me, and it is giving me peace of mind.
John Bayes, IT Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Netwrix Privilege Secure was straightforward to install, allowing my engineers, who were not very familiar with the product, to easily implement it. This helped us avoid large-scale consultancy costs and shorten the setup process to a single day, compared to the several weeks required by other products.
Ivar Indekeu, Senior Manager IT Operations
Transparent, Cost-Effective Pricing
Experience powerful security without the exorbitant price tag. Netwrix offers value without hidden costs.
Unmatched Visibility
Gain 360° insight into your data, identities, and infrastructure—going beyond basic data monitoring.
Why Choose Netwrix?
Comprehensive Coverage
Protect what matters most: your data, identities, and infrastructure—all secured by Netwrix.
DISCLAIMER
This webpage represents comparative advertising intended to inform readers and assist prospective buyers in making a purchase decision. The features and functions highlighted herein are not exhaustive of all the features and functions available in the products identified herein. Nothing on this page is endorsed by our competitor. If you have any doubts about what is expressed on this page, we welcome you to try our products out for yourself.
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Despite what Varonis and its competitors tell you, proper data security goes beyond data. Data classification and activity monitoring aren’t DLP, and mitigation isn’t prevention either.
If you’re frustrated with Varonis’ overhyped marketing, attachment to any security acronym that’s hot, and their exorbitant price, give us a shout!
4.5 (143 reviews)
Capabilities
Data Discovery
& Access
Attack Surface Visibility
Preventative technologies
Data Loss Prevention
Active Directory Security
The Varonis Alternative that Helps You See the Whole Picture
With comprehensive, in-depth solutions spanning the data, identity, and infrastructure threat surfaces, Netwrix not only helps you see more, but also implement actual safeguards and technical enforcement that prevent threats to your data security.
Mitigate the risks around your sensitive data by reducing access to the minimum, proactively pinpointing conditions that could lead to a breach and automating threat mitigation.
Save valuable IT time and ensure accurate provisioning by enabling users to request access directly from the people who know who actually needs what access to which data: the data owners.
Maintain strict adherence to least privilege by making it easy for data owners to regularly review permissions to their data.
Detect even advanced complex attacks, including insider threats, in their early stages and automate your incident response to shut down identity and data threats immediately.
Empower your security teams with comprehensive visibility into all related security events, enabling effective investigation, incident reporting, and targeted recovery efforts.
Improve your data security posture by understanding how incidents start and unfold.
Ensure endpoint data loss prevention across all your endpoints, regardless of the operating system they run on. Netwrix's real-time DLP solution actively monitors and safeguards your sensitive data, preventing breaches, unauthorized sharing and malicious exfiltration to achieve regulatory compliance.
Stay protected even offline. Netwrix enables continious monitoring and data information protection even when your devices are in transit or in areas with limited connectivity.
Prevent unauthorized access and data leaks by ensuring that sensitive data is only accessed, copied, or transferred with explicit authorization from an administrator.
Discover your blind spots by scaning tens of thousands of endpoints to identify potential footholds for attackers.
Remove unnecessary administrative accounts from all endpoints in a single click, ensuring just-in-time access to reduce the risk of installing malware or critical security settings being altered.
Get visibility over your attack surface with dashboards tailored to executives and IT pros. View all accounts and activity to have situational awareness of privileged activity.
Netwrix helps us be more proactive. We can quickly catch malicious activity in the network we might not otherwise see. Our sensitive data is more secure because Netwrix enables us to know exactly where it resides and who has access to it. I don’t want to think of life without Netwrix. It makes things so much easier.
Holly McCoy, Senior Information Systems Officer
First National Bank Minnesota
Hull College
Even if you enforce least privilege and trust your employees as much as we do, you still need to know exactly who did what, when and where, so you can detect internal threats or hackers in time. You want to know that your sensitive data is safe — that is what Netwrix can tell me, and it is giving me peace of mind.
John Bayes, IT Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Netwrix Privilege Secure was straightforward to install, allowing my engineers, who were not very familiar with the product, to easily implement it. This helped us avoid large-scale consultancy costs and shorten the setup process to a single day, compared to the several weeks required by other products.
Ivar Indekeu, Senior Manager IT Operations
Transparent, Cost-Effective Pricing
Experience powerful security without the exorbitant price tag. Netwrix offers value without hidden costs.
Unmatched Visibility
Gain 360° insight into your data, identities, and infrastructure—going beyond basic data monitoring.
Why Choose Netwrix?
Comprehensive Coverage
Protect what matters most: your data, identities, and infrastructure—all secured by Netwrix.
DISCLAIMER
This webpage represents comparative advertising intended to inform readers and assist prospective buyers in making a purchase decision. The features and functions highlighted herein are not exhaustive of all the features and functions available in the products identified herein. Nothing on this page is endorsed by our competitor. If you have any doubts about what is expressed on this page, we welcome you to try our products out for yourself.