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Alternatives to Varonis Data Security Platform
24 cybersecurity tools sit alongside Varonis Data Security Platform in this directory. Below is what separates each from Varonis Data Security Platform on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 24
- With a free tier
- 2
- Cheaper to start
- 5
- Varonis Data Security Platform starts at
- $100/year
Why people look past Varonis Data Security Platform
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Varonis Data Security Platform entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
It costs more than the category median
Varonis Data Security Platform starts at $100/year. Across the 5 cybersecurity tools listed beside it that publish a price, the median entry point is $4.99/month.
There is no free tier
The record for Varonis Data Security Platform carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 2 of the 24 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
The world's most-loved password manager
- Starts $97.01 a month cheaper, at $2.99/month.
The world's #1 rated antivirus
- Starts $80.01 a year cheaper, at $19.99/year.
Simplify online life with LastPass password manager
- Can be used without paying; Varonis Data Security Platform cannot.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than subscription.
Powerful protection against evolving threats
- Starts $64 a year cheaper, at $36/year.
Free TOTP two-factor authentication app that gained optional cloud sync in 2023
- Can be used without paying; Varonis Data Security Platform cannot.
- Sold on a Free, no in-app purchases model rather than subscription.
- 1 tier to Varonis Data Security Platform's 3.
Real-time transaction fraud and financial crime detection for banks and payment processors
- Sold on a quote model rather than subscription.
- 1 tier to Varonis Data Security Platform's 3.
Every Varonis Data Security Platform alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Varonis Data Security Platform badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (2)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- LastPass , Free
- Google Authenticator , Free
Cheaper than Varonis Data Security Platform (5)
Entry price under Varonis Data Security Platform's $100/year. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- 1Password , $2.99/month
- Bitdefender Total Security , $19.99/year
- Norton 360 , $36/year
- Entrust Identity as a Service , $2/month
- Camio , $4.99/month
What you would be giving up
Varonis Data Security Platform is most often brought in for answering an auditor or a board asking exactly which sensitive files are reachable by every employee and who has opened them, cleaning up microsoft 365 sprawl where teams, sharepoint sites and shared links accumulated faster than governance, investigating an insider incident where you need a defensible record of what a departing employee accessed and when, reducing the blast radius of a compromised account before an incident by removing global access groups and broken inheritance. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Varonis Data Security Platform is broadly right and the question is cost, the Varonis Data Security Platform pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Cybersecurity category lists everything the directory holds, and best cybersecurity tools ranks them.
Varonis Data Security Platform runs on web, desktop. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Varonis Data Security Platform alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Varonis Data Security Platform?
- 24 other cybersecurity tools are listed in this directory, led by 1Password, Bitdefender Total Security, LastPass, Norton 360. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Varonis Data Security Platform?
- 2 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: LastPass, Google Authenticator.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Varonis Data Security Platform?
- Yes. 5 of the alternatives below start under Varonis Data Security Platform's $100/year: 1Password at $2.99/month, Bitdefender Total Security at $19.99/year, Norton 360 at $36/year, Entrust Identity as a Service at $2/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Varonis Data Security Platform?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: it costs more than the category median; there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Varonis Data Security Platform?
- Varonis Data Security Platform is most often brought in for answering an auditor or a board asking exactly which sensitive files are reachable by every employee and who has opened them, cleaning up microsoft 365 sprawl where teams, sharepoint sites and shared links accumulated faster than governance, investigating an insider incident where you need a defensible record of what a departing employee accessed and when, reducing the blast radius of a compromised account before an incident by removing global access groups and broken inheritance. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Varonis Data Security Platform?
- None of the cybersecurity tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Varonis Data Security Platform alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Cybersecurity, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Varonis Data Security Platform against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Varonis Data Security Platform covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every cybersecurity tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Cybersecurity category, 24 tools beside Varonis Data Security Platform. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.