Varonis Partners with Pure Storage to Protect Critical Data

We are excited to announce Varonis’ newest partnership with Pure Storage. The partnership brings the data protection provided by Varonis’ leading Data Security Platform to Pure Storage, the leader in high-performance, immutable storage. 

Varonis is the first data security provider to integrate natively with the Pure Storage Platform, enabling customers to proactively secure their sensitive data, detect threats, and comply with evolving data and AI privacy rules. 

Proactively securing critical data in Pure Storage with Varonis 

More than 13,000 customers trust Pure Storage with their most critical data. Increasingly, organizations are turning to Pure Storage to store AI data, simplify AI pipelines, and enable models to run faster.  

To help secure this critical data, Varonis can discover and classify sensitive data across billions of files in Pure Storage Flash Array and Flash Blade in real-time. Varonis maps permissions and data activity to sensitivity to reveal where data is at risk. With automated prevention, our platform automatically fixes exposure and misconfigurations to ensure that sensitive data is always secure. Varonis can also detect active threats with AI-powered user behavior analytics and a global team of data security experts and incident responders.  

With these capabilities, Varonis proactively reduces an organization’s blast radius both in Pure Storage and across hybrid environments. 

Now with the deep integration with Pure Storage, customers get the full breadth of capabilities provided by the Varonis Data Security Platform, which include:  

Real-time data discovery & classification 

Varonis continuously discovers and classifies sensitive data in Pure Storage Flash Array and Flash Blade in real-time. Classification results are paired with permissions and activity to uncover overexposure and risk.  

Blast radius reduction 

Varonis maps complex permissions, like nested groups and inheritance, to show effective permissions and reveal exposed and at-risk data. With automated prevention, Varonis can right-size access, fix misconfigurations, and automatically reduce a customer’s blast radius.  

Native auditing enrichment 

Varonis monitors CIFS shares to capture critical events like when a file was created and modified or when someone failed to access a file. This comprehensive audit trail aids investigations and streamlines compliance.  

Proactive threat detection  

Varonis leverages AI-powered use behavior analytics to detect suspicious activity, such as escalated privileges, and prevent insider attacks. Varonis also provides comprehensive audit trail aids investigations and recovery after a security incident. With Varonis’ Managed Data Detection & Response (MDDR) service, customers can ensure that their data is always being monitored with 24x7x365 incident response and alert monitoring from Varonis data security experts.  

Pairing leading cyber resilience with leading data security  

Pure Storage is an 11-time leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage and the storage platform of choice for thousands of enterprises across the globe. Customers choose Pure Storage not only for high-performing storage but also for the industry-leading ability to quickly recover from disasters with immutable snapshots.  

With Varonis’ partnership, our customers can bolster cyber resilience with industry-leading proactive data security and threat detection. Varonis has continuously been recognized as a leading Data Security Platform by analyst firms like Forrester Research and GigaOm Research.  

Ready to see our Pure Storage integration in action? Schedule a quick demo today.