Varonis
About
Varonis provides a data security platform that discovers, classifies, and monitors sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. The company's platform automatically reduces data exposure, enforces governance, and detects threats in real-time using AI-powered automation.
Details
VenSearch Intelligence
Ideal Customer
- Varonis's sweet spot is mid-to-large enterprises and upper-midmarket organizations, historically focused on Global 2000 firms but expanding into the 1,000–5,000 employee segment following its SaaS pivot.
- The company serves approximately 8,200 organizational customers as of Q3 2025, with the most common customer size being 1,001–5,000 employees (34% of its customer base).
Key Differentiators
- Varonis differentiates on its automated, data-centric approach — going beyond simply discovering and surfacing risks to automatically remediating them, which competitors largely do not do at scale.
- The company claims the #1 rated DSPM on Gartner Peer Insights, earning the Customers' Choice distinction for three consecutive years (2024, 2025, 2026) with 97–99% of customers willing to recommend, and more five-star reviews than any other vendor in the category.
Industries Served
- Varonis serves a broad range of industries including financial services (its largest vertical at approximately 28% of revenue), healthcare and life sciences (~16%), public sector/government (~13%), technology, industrial, insurance, energy and utilities, consumer and retail, media and entertainment, and education.
- The company has industry-specific credentialing to match — including HIPAA compliance for healthcare, PCI DSS for financial services, HDS certification for French healthcare data hosting, and FedRAMP Moderate Authorization for U.S. federal government agencies.
Service Coverage
- Varonis operates globally, with customers in 95 countries as reported in its 2024 10-K filing.
- The company is headquartered in Miami, FL, with R&D offices in Herzliya, Israel, and has employees and legal entities across six continents including North America, Europe, and Asia.
Partnerships
- Varonis has over 196 documented technology and channel partnerships.
- Its most significant is a strategic product partnership with Microsoft announced in July 2025, deepening integration with Microsoft Purview, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, and Azure to deliver automated data security and governance across the Microsoft ecosystem.
Company Size & Ownership
- Varonis was founded in 2005 by Yaki Faitelson and Ohad Korkus and went public on NASDAQ (VRNS) in March 2014.
- As of 2025–2026, the company employs approximately 2,658–2,810 people globally and reported FY2025 revenue of approximately $623.5 million, with trailing twelve-month revenue as of mid-2026 reaching approximately $688 million.
Compliance & Certifications
- Varonis holds an extensive portfolio of certifications including ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701, SOC 2 Type II, CSA STAR Level 1, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIAP Common Criteria, Cyber Essentials, and HDS (French Health Data Hosting).
- Notably, Varonis is the first and only cloud-native Data Security Platform to achieve FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, and it is also listed on GSA Schedule 70 and the U.S. Air Force Netcents-2 NetOps contract vehicle.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
12 offeringsAthena AI
AI-powered tool that streamlines investigations and analyses within the Varonis platform to help security teams respond to threats more efficiently.
Data Access Governance
Visualizes access to sensitive data across environments and enhances access governance by streamlining least-privilege implementation. Provides effective permissions analysis, blast radius reduction, self-service access, and automated remediation.
Data Discovery and Classification
Automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments using AI and sophisticated pattern matching. Provides accurate classification of PII, PCI, PHI, passwords, secrets, and tokens with 98% accuracy.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Agentless, cloud-native DLP that automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data at rest, prevents exposure, monitors data activity, and stops data exfiltration. Provides cross-cloud policy enforcement and data lifecycle automation.
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
Discovers, maps, monitors, and protects data wherever it lives with automated remediation, policy enforcement, and real-time threat detection. Provides comprehensive coverage across file storage, SaaS apps, email, IaaS, and databases.
Data-centric UEBA
Protects data against stealth attacks and insider threats using hundreds of machine learning-powered threat models. Provides real-time cross-platform threat detection with high-fidelity alerts and includes 24x7x365 managed data detection and response.
Database Activity Monitoring (Next-Gen DAM)
Agentless monitoring solution that secures thousands of cloud, on-prem, managed, or unmanaged databases. Captures every database query with complete forensic detail and automatically detects and blocks suspicious queries and sensitive data exfiltration in real-time.
Identity Posture
Centralizes access control and eliminates identity-based risks by right-sizing access across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Maps identity relationships, provides access intelligence, and effortlessly reduces blast radius through automated remediation.
Identity Resolution
Seamlessly maps identities across cloud and hybrid environments to enforce least privilege and reduce risk. Visualizes identity relationships, enables least privilege enforcement, and discovers and catalogs agents including AI agents.
MDDR (Managed Data Detection & Response)
24x7 managed data detection and response service that extends security teams with expert monitoring of data activity. Provides industry-leading 30-minute SLA on ransomware detection with global team of threat hunters and incident responders.
Varonis Atlas
The complete AI security platform that allows organizations to secure everything they build and run with AI across the entire AI data lifecycle. Provides AI inventory, security posture management, pen testing, runtime guardrails, activity monitoring, detection and response, compliance management, and third-party risk management.
Varonis Concierge
Expert guidance and hands-on execution service that provides specialized support for Varonis platform deployment and optimization.
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