Varonis Explained - DatAdvantage Cloud for Salesforce

Varonis DatAdvantage Cloud for Salesforce is a powerful solution designed to help organisations safeguard sensitive data within their Salesforce environments. Salesforce, a widely used CRM platform, holds a wealth of sensitive business information, including personal data, contracts, and pricing documents. Varonis provides visibility into user activity, with built-in threat models that detect unusual behaviour such as excessive data access, changes to administrator accounts, or unauthorised sharing of records. The platform also uses the CRUD model (Create, Read, Update, Delete, and Share) to simplify the management of permissions, enabling organisations to easily identify who has access to specific data and prevent unintended exposure to external or former users.

In addition, Varonis offers comprehensive data classification capabilities, allowing businesses to identify sensitive information like personally identifiable information (PII), financial data, or PCI-related data within their Salesforce environment. Using patterns, dictionaries, and proximity sensing, the system detects sensitive data such as bank account details or national insurance numbers. This helps security teams gain a clear understanding of what data is stored, and monitor user activity not only in Salesforce but across other cloud applications as well, improving response times and reducing cross-platform investigation efforts.