Varonis – Next-Gen Database Activity Monitoring

Varonis Next-Gen Database Activity Monitoring is built to replace legacy, agent-based DAM tools that Varonis characterizes as self-hosted, painful to deploy, expensive to operate, and difficult to upgrade, offering instead an agentless, cloud-native architecture that secures thousands of databases with minimal operational overhead. The product captures every database query with complete forensic detail of who accessed which data, when, and how, automatically detecting and blocking suspicious queries and sensitive data exfiltration in real time. Data-centric UEBA extends detection beyond any single database by training machine learning models on activity across the whole tech stack, from databases to cloud services and SaaS applications, so abnormal access patterns surface regardless of where they originate. Automated remediation revokes excessive permissions, masks sensitive data, and enforces other security policies without manual intervention, while identity protection maps database permissions and activity back to corporate identities to help teams achieve least privilege and remove stale entitlements. Posture management continuously validates configurations against industry frameworks including NIST, HIPAA, and GDPR. Varonis maps database identities to corporate users across Snowflake, Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server, unifying structured and unstructured data security within its broader Data Security Platform.