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Varonis Systems

Varonis Systems

Varonis Systems is a New York City-based cybersecurity company providing solutions for data governance for financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and technology companies.

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Varonis Systems is a software company with headquarters in New York City with R&D offices in Herzliya, Israel. They developed a security software platform that allows organizations to track, visualize, analyze and protect unstructured data. Varonis performs User Behavior Analytics (UBA) that identifies abnormal behavior from cyberattacks. Their software extracts metadata from an enterprise's IT infrastructure and uses this information to map relationships among employees, data objects, content, and usage.

History

Varonis Systems was founded in 2005 by Yaki Faitelson and Ohad Korkus, in order to address security issues such as file activity tracking, information rights management, and access control. Prior to Varonis, Faitelson and Korkus worked at the global professional services and systems integration divisions of NetVision and NetApp.

Faitelson and Korkus invented a solution that would retrieve metadata contained in file systems. They brought in Dr. Jacob Goldberger, an expert in statistical modeling and machine learning, to help develop the algorithms that would provide the user-data link. In 2005, Faitelson, Goldberger, and Korkus filed a patent, “Automatic management of storage access control, which was granted in 2006. The result of their work was the Intelligent Data Use (IDU) classification platform, a platform for gathering and analyzing file data use. The first product based on this platform, DatAdvantage, was released in 2006 - built so that enterprises can monitor file activity and user behavior, and manage data ownership, data access rights, and responsibilities of file system data.

Varonis continued with core platform development. In 2009, Varonis added the IDU Classification Framework, which allowed Varonis products to search for keywords, phrases and patterns from file content. In 2013, Varonis released DatAlert to detect and uncover insider threats and potential data breaches, notifying and alerting on suspicious file system activity including unusual access to sensitive data and changes to permissions and configuration files.

Varonis raised capital from Accel Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners, Gitano Venture Capital, and EMC.

Technology and Architecture

The Varonis Metadata Framework is implemented at two levels. Non-intrusive monitoring resides on file servers, feeding both real-time file event information and ACLs to a separate server. The collected data is stored in a database. The second part, the IDU analytics engine, performs statistical analysis to derive data owners, baseline user activity, and user groupings. The Metadata Framework is able to incrementally index file metadata, thereby allowing it to maintain the current state of file metadata in its database. DatAdvantage presents this information to IT administrators. As of April 30, 2016, Varonis had 28 issued patents in the United States and 43 pending U.S. patent applications.

Supported Platforms
  • Windows
  • UNIX/Linux (but no DatAnywhere client)
  • SharePoint
  • Exchange
  • Office 365
  • Active Directory/LDAP
  • EMC NAS
  • NetApp NAS
  • HP NAS
  • Hitachi NAS
  • IBM Storewize V7000

Customers
  • EMC2
  • Barclays Capital
  • Phillip Morris
  • Boston University
  • Sirius XM Radio

Awards
  • Fast 50 Reader Favorites of 2008
  • Network World – 10 enterprise software companies to watch

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Company attributes

Industry
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
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Data discovery
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Data mapping
Data security
Data security
Finance
Finance
Technology
Technology
Software
Software
Privacy engineering
Privacy engineering
...
Location
United States
United States
New York
New York
New York City
New York City
B2X
B2B
B2B
CEO
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Yaki Faitelson
Founder
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Yaki Faitelson
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Ohad Korkus
AngelList URL
angel.co/company/va...nis-systems
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles.../54268-48
Legal Name
Varonis Systems, Inc.
Parent Organization
Varonis Systems
Varonis Systems
Subsidiary
Varonis Systems
Varonis Systems
Legal classification
Public company
Public company
-1
Date Incorporated
January 1, 2004
Number of Employees (Ranges)
1,001 – 5,000
Number of Employees
2,065
Full Address
1250 Broadway, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10001, United States
CIK Number
1,361,113
Place of Incorporation
New York City
New York City
Investors
Evergreen Venture Partners
Evergreen Venture Partners
Accel Partners
Accel Partners
Pitango Venture Capital
Pitango Venture Capital
DUNS Number
801204012
IRS Number
571,222,280
Founded Date
2005
Email Address
sales@varonis.com
Phone Number
+18772928767
+12126957010
+442079474160
Total Funding Amount (USD)
25,140,000
Latest Funding Round Date
January 22, 2009
Competitors
Optiv (Cybersecurity Company)
Optiv (Cybersecurity Company)
Quest Software
Quest Software
Qlik
Qlik
PHEMI Inc
PHEMI Inc
Internal
Internal
Collibra
Collibra
Cloudera
Cloudera
Stock Symbol
VRNS
Exchange
Nasdaq
Nasdaq
Board of Directors
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Kevin Comolli
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Rachel Prishkolnik
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Gili Iohan
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Carlos Aued
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Ofer Segev
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Ohad Korkus
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Yaki Faitelson
Fred van den Bosch
Fred van den Bosch
...
CTO
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David Bass
Key People
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Yaki Faitelson
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David Bass
Latest Funding Type
Series B round
Series B round
NAICS Code
561,499
CAGE Code
4SVC8
Patents Assigned (Count)
2
Wellfound ID
varonis-systems
Country
United States
United States

Other attributes

Company Operating Status
Active
Strategic Partnerships
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Shoregroup
VeriStor Systems
VeriStor Systems
Softline International
Softline International
Market Capitalization
5,330,000,000
Official Name
Varonis Systems, Inc.
Public/Private
Public-1
Wikidata ID
Q19903773

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