The Challenge
Microsoft Exchange installations containing huge amounts of semi-structured data can present immense protection and management challenges:
- Permissions: Determining who has access to Exchange mailboxes and public folders, including shared and delegated mailbox permissions.
- Access Auditing: IT can’t answer pressing questions like, “Who accessed my email or calendar?” or “Who sent email on my behalf?”
- Data Ownership: IT can’t reliably identify business owners of public folder data, and even some mailboxes.
- Operational: Manual permissions and group changes are untested and unreliable.
- High Risk: Stale, excess permissions are rarely revoked. Data open to the Anonymous group can be difficult to identify and remediate. Critical data is exposed.
The Varonis Solution
Varonis® DatAdvantage® addresses these challenges by aggregating Active Directory user and group details, ACL information and all data access events—without requiring native OS auditing—to build a complete picture of who can and who is accessing data, and who should have their access revoked. It also leads IT to rightful data owners, so the right people can ensure appropriate access and usage.
“With Varonis® DatAdvantage® for Exchange, we have significantly reduced our Exchange access and data management workload for tasks that we do many times every day. We now have a single console with a complete map to our ever-growing Exchange environment that has enabled our staff to identify and proactively manage and protect Exchange data.”– Bernard Besohe
Publications Office of the European Union
