Data Security for SLED

Keep state, local, and student data safe, reduce your risk of cyber attacks, and automate regulatory compliance.

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SLED data is at risk.

State, local, and educational institutions are responsible for managing and protecting the personal data of thousands, which makes them prime targets for ransomware and other cyberthreats. A data-centric security approach is crucial to mitigate risk and protect sensitive data.

81%

of organizations
have sensitive

SaaS data

exposed

10%

of records in the
cloud are
exposed to
all employees

57%

of cyberattacks
start with a

compromised

identity

$3.5M

average cost
of a
education sector
breach

Detect & prevent cyberattacks

Other solutions can't tell you if data was stolen or not if a breach occurs. Varonis automatically detects early signs of ransomware and other threats with our behavior-based threat models. Alerts can trigger automated responses, like ending affected users’ sessions or changing passwords, to stop an attack in its tracks and keep data secure.

Secure sensitive data

Automatically identify and classify sensitive student, faculty, and staff data such as PII and PHI across your cloud and on-premise data stores and limit who can access it. Varonis can implement access changes automatically without interrupting day-to-day operations.

Achieve regulatory compliance

Monitor how sensitive and regulated student data like FERPA is accessed and shared to easily report on security violations, prevent unauthorized access, and protect against cyber threats. A full audit log of data activity helps satisfy auditors and meet breach notification requirements.

Deploy AI confidently

Accelerate AI adoption with complete visibility and control over AI tools and workloads so you don't leak sensitive information. Varonis prevents sensitive data exposure via AI copilots like Microsoft 365 Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce. Discover and secure AI workloads in large data stores like AWS, Azure, and Snowflake.

"The greatest success was automating the remediation of our global access groups. We went from 65,000 open,at-risk files down to zero in a matter of months. With Varonis, we achieved a better security posture than we thought possible.”

Storage Admin

Large U.S. Local Government

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"Varonis makes it easy to report and present data governance issues, and request that the local authority’s services manage their data. Without Varonis, we would have a hard time doing that.”

IT Member

Local Authority

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“Taking these products and moving up to the Varonis cloud makes it easier for us to manage the solution. We’re in the process of implementing all the additional features that are part of their cloud service.”

Chief Information Security Officer

U.S. Local Municipal Government

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"We have thousands of students with personal details, like financial aid information, that could be compromised. Being able to use Varonis to monitor access and how data is being accessed has taught us how to structure security groups and user accounts, manage access and permissions, and better protect our data."

IT Assistant Director

U.S. Private University

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“I was amazed by how quickly Varonis was able to classify data and uncover potential data exposures during the free assessment. It was truly eye-opening.”

Michael Smith, CISO, HKS

"What I like about Varonis is that they come from a data-centric place. Other products protect the infrastructure, but they do nothing to protect your most precious commodity — your data."

Deborah Haworth, Director of Information Security, Penguin Random House

“Varonis’ support is unprecedented, and their team continues to evolve and improve their products to align with the rapid pace of industry evolution.”

Al Faella, CTO, Prospect Capital

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