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Varonis announces a new partnership with McAfee for data loss prevention
February 2012 by Marc Jacob
Varonis Systems Inc. announced it has joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) partner program in order to better address the challenges organizations face as they manage growing volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. The interoperability between the Varonis IDU Classification Framework and McAfee® Data Loss Prevention (DLP) will allow customers to identify sensitive data on their file systems, NAS devices and SharePoint sites, find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn’t have access, who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection and classification solutions.
Unstructured and semi-structured data such as documents, spreadsheets, images, and videos make up approximately 80% of the average organization’s data, and is growing quickly: current estimates place the increase at 50% year-over-year for most organizations (Source: IDC). Varonis and McAfee software solutions are engineered to provide an enterprise-wide view of sensitive data, data permissions, data usage, and who the data’s owner is – to quickly identify the sensitive data that is least protected. The unified solution helps improve data security, decrease risk of data misuse, and ensures consistency in entitlement decision making. Data owners and IT gain immediate understanding of which files are sensitive based on company policies, who within the organization has access to those files, and who is utilizing that access. IT administrators can investigate permissions and usage, issue alerts when files are accessed inappropriately, and change access controls in real-time based on company policies.
