Varonis Systems, the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, represented in South Africa by partner Magix Security, has announced the availability of a new version of DatAdvantage for Exchange. The latest version gives Exchange administrators increased visibility and control over their mailboxes and public folders.
Microsoft Exchange journaling and diagnostics only capture a limited amount of data. With Varonis DatAdvantage for Exchange, administrators have full visibility into activities and into: Who deleted a message or a folder? Who changed permissions? Who sent a message on behalf of someone else? Who changed the content of an e-mail and forwarded it as or on behalf of the original sender? Who accessed an inbox, read e-mails and then marked them as unread.
“Even with massive investments in messaging protection such as e-discovery, back-up, anti-virus, anti-spam, etc, organisations still cannot perform the most basic management and protection tasks within Exchange,” said Mike Steyn, product manager at Magix Security. "It is impossible to say with 100% confidence that e-mail is secure without visibility into who has access to mailboxes and public folders, and what users are doing with this access. The limited visibility and controls offered within Exchange, combined with soaring use of e-mail, continues to create situations of extreme jeopardy for organisations. Over and over, we see that business catastrophes start with or involve e-mail."
The Varonis Metadata Framework technology, the foundation for all Varonis products, uses file system filtering to bypass the limitations of standard file system auditing capabilities and Exchange journaling and diagnostics mechanisms. The Varonis Metadata Framework is uniquely able to collect and aggregate enormous amounts of metadata non-intrusively, normalise it, store it, analyse it, and present actionable information to both messaging staff and non-IT users.
To prevent unauthorised access to mailboxes and public folders, Exchange administrators need to see and understand activity patterns over the entire platform, understand ownership of the data, visualise access for all mailboxes and public folders across all the information stores, easily identify stale mailboxes and public folders, and optimise processes for consolidation and migration. Varonis DatAdvantage for Exchange automates tasks that administrators are already doing manually hundreds of times every day.
Varonis DatAdvantage for Exchange enables customers to manage mailboxes and public folders alongside file servers and SharePoint sites through the proven Varonis Metadata Framework and Varonis DatAdvantage UI, offering the same trusted permissions visibility, audit trail and recommendations that customers have come to expect from Varonis Data Governance solutions.
With Varonis DatAdvantage for Exchange, customers have detailed permissions and activity intelligence enabling them to:
* Clean up access to shared mailboxes and public folders
* Find lost messages
* Automatically audit and track message activity
* Identify spikes in activity
* Identify data owners and remove stale public folders and mailboxes
Varonis DatAdvantage for Exchange features include:
* Bi-directional permissions visibility: from both a mailbox/folder and user/group view that allows administrators to easily analyse and report on permissions, spot permissions errors and improperly delegated access.
* Auditing automation: a detailed audit trail with highly granular filtering and sorting so administrators can easily see when e-mail was sent, from and to whom it was sent, and when it was opened.
* Recommendations and permissions modelling: enabling administrators to quickly spot excessive rights and test permissions changes - prior to committing them - so changes will not disrupt end-user productivity.
* Ownership identification: automating ownership identification, assignment and reporting for mailboxes, public folders, and distribution groups to facilitate proper access authorisation and review.
* Stale data identification: enabling IT to reduce storage overhead and costs.
For more information about Varonis DatAdvantage for Exchange, visit: www.varonis.com/products/datadvantage/exchange.
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