COMPARISON
Symmetry vs. Varonis
Find Out Why Organizations of All Sizes Trust Symmetry to Protect Their Data Without it Ever Leaving Their Custody and Control - Especially the Most Innovative and Security-conscious Fortune 50 Organizations, and Federal Agencies.
Why Symmetry
Faster Deployment, Immediate Value
While Varonis requires months of complex manual tweaking, Symmetry delivers actionable data insights within days. No hardware dependencies, no slow SQL-based processing—just immediate visibility and protection.
Predictable, Cost-Effective Pricing
Avoid Varonis’ expensive consumption-based pricing surprises with their change in licesning model. Symmetry’s instance-based pricing model provides predictable costs and better ROI, especially as your data environment scales.
Purpose-Built for Modern Enterprises
While Varonis evolved from file share access governance, Symmetry was purpose-built as a complete modern Data Securityplatform, delivering deep, data-centric and identity first protection across all cloud and on-premise data stores from day one.
Symmetry Differentiators
Symmetry Systems, a purpose built DSPM, delivers deep, data-centric protection & actionable insights across all cloud and on-premise data stores.
Varonis
Varonis is a well-established data security platform that specializes in data access governance, protection against insider threats & data security analytics.
Deployment Model
“In-your-cloud” deployment model means your data and metadata never leaves your custody or control.
Varonis
Offers both SaaS and self-hosted deployment options.
Cloud Coverage & Scaling
Works seamlessly across all your on-premise or multi cloud data stores too with proven ability to scale to Fortune 50 scale.
Varonis
Offers limited coverage of cloud data stores. Negative feedback on performance of M365 OneDrive and SharePoint, and handling of S3 and RDS at scale.
Data Classification Coverage & Precision
High precision with the ability to create custom classifiers and complex policies for niche needs. Continuously learns and can be tuned to… biz context, false positives.
Varonis
Strong built-in classifiers but more limited in customization and precision. Lacks ability to train customer identifiers on data and edits require hierarchy to be rebuilt.
Time to Full Implementation & Value
Delivers actionable data insights within days through automated deployment and pre-built policies.
Varonis
Often requires months to years for full implementation due to complex manual configuration and slow classification speeds.
Licensing Model & Cost
Has a very attractive pricing strategy – based on instances, not consumption.
Varonis
Increasingly too expensive with changing licensing models from perpetual models to consumption based pricing that impacts significantly cost of ownership.
Trusted by the organizations of all sizes to protect their data without it ever leaving their custody and control.
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Enormous Toy Manufacturer
ANNUAL REVENUE
$5 billion+
EMPLOYEES
30,000+
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Massive Big Box Retailer
ANNUAL REVENUE
$80 billion+
EMPLOYEES
270,000+
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Government Space Agency
ANNUAL BUDGET
$20 billion+
EMPLOYEES
15,000+
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Large Investment Fintech
ANNUAL REVENUE
$200 million+
EMPLOYEES
1,000+
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Big Revenue Cycle Manager
ANNUAL REVENUE
$2 billion+
EMPLOYEES
25,000+
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Big B2B Fintech
ANNUAL REVENUE
$700 million+
EMPLOYEES
2,500+
Find Out What Sets Symmetry Apart from the Pack
Symmetry stands apart by uniquely combining data visibility and protection with identity context to provide unmatched control over sensitive information across complex cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Find out for yourself how its data-to-identity security platform bridges traditional gaps between data security, identity access, and AI risk management — delivering measurable enterprise outcomes
