The New Varonis-Pure Storage Integration for Cyber Resilience

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The new Varonis-Pure Storage integration offers a powerful, unified solution that enhances data security and bolsters cyber resilience. Learn more about it.

• Robert Shields

Apr 21, 2025

Cyber Resilience Cybersecurity

Summary

In an increasingly hostile digital landscape, protecting critical data has become increasingly challenging. The new Varonis-Pure Storage integration empowers organizations to secure their data, mitigate risk, and ensure resilience today and into the future.

In today's threat-driven environment, organizations are confronted with unprecedented challenges in protecting their data. Massive volumes of unstructured data, ranging from sensitive files to mission-critical backups, are under constant threat from sophisticated attacks such as ransomware, insider breaches, and data exfiltration. Traditional security systems often fall short when it comes to providing the necessary speed, visibility, and resilience required to combat these modern threats. The stakes are high: Any breach can disrupt operations, jeopardize revenue, erode customer trust, and result in hefty regulatory fines.

Recognizing these challenges, the new integration between Pure Storage and Varonis offers a powerful, unified solution designed to enhance data security and bolster cyber resilience. This integration addresses two critical aspects: high-performance, immutable storage provided by Pure Storage, and comprehensive data security delivered by the Varonis Data Security Platform.

Overcoming the Challenges of Data Security and Resilience

Organizations today must not only identify and protect sensitive data but also ensure that their systems can quickly recover from any disruptive incident. Cyber threats continue to evolve, and attackers are increasingly targeting both production and backup data stores. The integration of Pure Storage and Varonis helps organizations tackle these challenges head-on.

Pure Storage provides a high-performance storage platform built on its renowned FlashArray™ systems. These systems consolidate block and file workloads into a single, unified storage pool, eliminating data silos and offering ultra-low latency (as low as 150μs to 1ms) for rapid data access. With non-disruptive hardware upgrades and an industry-leading high availability (99.9999%), Pure Storage ensures that organizations can scale their storage seamlessly while maintaining business continuity.

Meanwhile, Varonis brings automated data security to the table. By leveraging Pure Storage APIs, Varonis directly accesses data and metadata from storage arrays to perform real-time data discovery and classification and analysis of file access patterns and user activity. This deep visibility enables organizations to right-size permissions, uncover overexposure, and detect abnormal behavior that could indicate insider threats or unauthorized access. Automated remediation capabilities allow Varonis to address issues like risky permissions or mislabeled files swiftly, reducing the potential blast radius in case of an attack.

Unified Defense for Enhanced Cyber Resilience

The real strength of the integration lies in its ability to combine the best of both worlds-Pure Storage cyber-resilient storage with Varonis' comprehensive data security. Together, they offer:

• Deep visibility and real-time analysis: Varonis leverages Pure Storage APIs to query storage arrays and gather detailed information on file access, user permissions, and data classification. This provides a comprehensive view of data activity across the environment, enabling organizations to detect anomalies and potential security threats early.
• Automated remediation: With its automated prevention and advanced behavioral analytics, Varonis can identify and remediate data risks in real time. Automated processes address high-risk permissions, overexposure, and misconfigurations, ensuring that data exposure is minimized.
• Rapid recovery and data integrity: Pure Storage immutable snapshots and non-disruptive upgrades ensure that data remains secure and can be rapidly restored in the event of a cyber incident. This fast recovery capability is critical to maintaining business continuity.
• Enhanced threat detection: By continuously monitoring data access patterns and usage, Varonis is able to identify suspicious behavior, such as abnormal file access or unauthorized data transfers. This early detection is key to preventing data exfiltration and mitigating potential breaches.
• Unified platform: The seamless integration between Pure Storage and Varonis means that organizations benefit from a consolidated solution that reduces complexity. With unified management and real-time analytics, security teams can focus on proactive threat prevention rather than firefighting after an incident.

A Future-proof Approach to Data Security

The combined capabilities of Pure Storage and Varonis not only address current data security challenges but also prepare organizations for the future. As data volumes continue to grow and cyber threats become even more sophisticated, the need for an integrated, agile defense strategy becomes paramount. By uniting high-performance, cyber-resilient storage with cutting-edge data security, this partnership offers a robust solution that scales with evolving business needs and technological advancements.

In conclusion, the new Varonis-Pure Storage integration empowers organizations to secure their critical data, mitigate risks, and ensure resilience in an increasingly hostile digital landscape. With real-time visibility, automated threat detection, and rapid recovery capabilities, businesses can confidently protect their most valuable asset-their data-while maintaining operational continuity and customer trust.

By embracing this unified approach, companies can not only defend against today's cyber threats but also build a foundation for long-term resilience, ensuring they are well-prepared for the challenges of tomorrow.

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Varonis-Pure Storage solution brief

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