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Varonis

Public company · $$$
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LAST UPDATED 07-2026

The platform most organizations are trying to leave and most alternatives are measured against. Its access-governance depth on file shares and M365 is genuinely hard to replicate — practitioner threads concede the capability even while resenting the price and the sales motion. Two patterns to plan around: professional-services dependency for upgrades and tuning, and a per-capability pricing model that grows with your estate. Budget for both or budget for Netwrix.

Coverage

Microsoft 365
AWS
Google Cloud
Snowflake / DBX
On-prem shares
SaaS apps

Evaluation checklist

  1. Can we run upgrades ourselves, or does every change route through your services?
  2. What does year-three renewal look like for a customer our size?

Sources

3 sources, dated
Product documentation — coverage07-2026
GSA published price list06-2026
10-K filing, FY2503-2026

Alternatives

Compared most often with Netwrix · BigID · Cyera