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MyRec.com vs Varonis Data Security Platform

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MyRec.com

Government

Recreation management for small parks departments, priced on your annual revenue with no contract

From
On request
Free plan
No
Full reviewWebsite
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Varonis Data Security Platform

Cybersecurity

Data security platform that maps effective permissions, content classification and access activity across file shares, Microsoft 365 and SaaS.

From
$100/year
Free plan
No
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: MyRec.com the annual fee scales with department revenue, so a successful department pays more for the same software as its programme income grows.; Varonis Data Security Platform deployment is a project rather than an installation: collectors, service accounts, the initial crawl of a large file estate and behavioural baselining typically run for weeks to months before the first genuinely useful report, so value arrives well after the invoice does.
  • They diverge on capability: MyRec.com covers Revenue-based annual fee, Varonis Data Security Platform covers Effective permissions modelling.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which MyRec.com and Varonis Data Security Platform actually diverge.

Attributes where MyRec.com and Varonis Data Security Platform differ
AttributeMyRec.comVaronis Data Security Platform
Starting priceOn request$100/year
Pricing modelPer year by department annual revenuesubscription
PlatformsWebWeb, Desktop
CategoryGovernmentCybersecurity
FoundedUnknown2005

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in MyRec.com

  • Revenue-based annual fee
  • Programme registration
  • Facility reservations
  • Point of sale
  • League scheduling
  • Everything included

Only in Varonis Data Security Platform

  • Effective permissions modelling
  • Content classification
  • Access activity auditing
  • Behavioural alerting
  • Blast radius view
  • Automated remediation
  • Stale data identification
  • Ransomware detection

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

MyRec.com

  • A town recreation department of one or two staff moving off paper registration forms and a shared spreadsheetnot Varonis Data Security Platform
  • A department that wants to choose its own payment processor rather than accept the software vendor ratenot Varonis Data Security Platform
  • Replacing a system that charges per module, where every new programme type triggered an upsellnot Varonis Data Security Platform
  • A department needing field permits and league scheduling without buying a facilities management suitenot Varonis Data Security Platform

Varonis Data Security Platform

  • Answering an auditor or a board asking exactly which sensitive files are reachable by every employee and who has opened themnot MyRec.com
  • Cleaning up Microsoft 365 sprawl where Teams, SharePoint sites and shared links accumulated faster than governancenot MyRec.com
  • Investigating an insider incident where you need a defensible record of what a departing employee accessed and whennot MyRec.com
  • Reducing the blast radius of a compromised account before an incident by removing global access groups and broken inheritancenot MyRec.com

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

MyRec.com

  • The annual fee scales with department revenue, so a successful department pays more for the same software as its programme income grows.
  • It is built for small and mid-sized departments and lacks the permitting, aquatics and multi-facility depth a large city requires.
  • Credit card processing is explicitly excluded from the fee, so the total cost depends on a merchant agreement the department must source and negotiate itself.
  • Integration surface is thin, with no meaningful connection to municipal ERP or finance systems, meaning revenue reconciliation is a manual export.
  • The vendor is small, so there is limited third-party consulting capacity and a narrow bench for support during peak registration periods.

Varonis Data Security Platform

  • Deployment is a project rather than an installation: collectors, service accounts, the initial crawl of a large file estate and behavioural baselining typically run for weeks to months before the first genuinely useful report, so value arrives well after the invoice does.
  • The collection model requires granting the platform broad read access across the data you are trying to protect, which needs its own approval and creates a high-value target, and some change boards spend longer approving that access than approving the purchase.
  • Findings are produced far faster than remediation capacity: an initial scan routinely surfaces hundreds of thousands of overexposed objects, and fixing them means altering permissions owned by business units, so without an executive mandate it becomes a dashboard nobody acts on.
  • Licensing is driven by identity counts and connected data sources, so a directory full of stale accounts and service principals inflates the bill and every additional platform you connect adds cost, which quietly pushes organisations to leave their least-governed systems uncovered.
  • Coverage is deepest in the Microsoft estate and thinner elsewhere: connectors exist for other SaaS and database platforms but they do not all support the same classification, alerting and automated remediation, so a heterogeneous estate receives uneven protection at a uniform price.

Pricing, plan by plan

MyRec.com

On request
  • MyRec.com$undefined/year
    • Single annual fee calculated from department annual revenue
    • Third parties report entry around 2,850 to 3,445 USD per year
    • Site build, onboarding and training included

Varonis Data Security Platform

$100/year
  • Varonis Essentials$100/year
    • Data classification
    • Access visibility
    • Permission management
  • Varonis Professional$175/year
    • All Essentials features
    • Threat detection
    • User behavior analytics
  • Varonis Enterprise$300/year
    • All Professional features
    • Advanced analytics
    • Incident response

Which should you pick?

Choose MyRec.com if

  • You need revenue-based annual fee.
  • You also want programme registration.
MyRec.com review

Choose Varonis Data Security Platform if

  • You need effective permissions modelling.
  • You work on Web, Desktop.
  • You also want content classification.
Varonis Data Security Platform review

Questions people ask

Is MyRec.com or Varonis Data Security Platform better?
Neither clearly leads. MyRec.com starts at On request and Varonis Data Security Platform at $100/year, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, MyRec.com or Varonis Data Security Platform?
MyRec.com starts at On request and Varonis Data Security Platform at $100/year.
Does MyRec.com or Varonis Data Security Platform run on more platforms?
MyRec.com runs on Web. Varonis Data Security Platform runs on Web, Desktop.
What is MyRec.com best used for?
MyRec.com is most often used for a town recreation department of one or two staff moving off paper registration forms and a shared spreadsheet, a department that wants to choose its own payment processor rather than accept the software vendor rate, replacing a system that charges per module, where every new programme type triggered an upsell, a department needing field permits and league scheduling without buying a facilities management suite. Of those, a town recreation department of one or two staff moving off paper registration forms and a shared spreadsheet and a department that wants to choose its own payment processor rather than accept the software vendor rate are not what Varonis Data Security Platform is typically brought in for.
What can MyRec.com do that Varonis Data Security Platform cannot?
MyRec.com covers Revenue-based annual fee, Programme registration, Facility reservations, Point of sale. Varonis Data Security Platform covers Effective permissions modelling, Content classification, Access activity auditing, Behavioural alerting.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

MyRec.com: How is MyRec priced?

A single annual fee calculated from your department annual revenue, using a calculator on the MyRec site. Third parties report entry around 2,850 to 3,445 USD a year.

Varonis Data Security Platform: Is this data loss prevention?

No, and it is a common confusion. DLP watches data in motion and tries to stop it leaving. Varonis works on data at rest: where it is, who can reach it, and who touched it. They address different halves of the same problem and organisations frequently run both.

MyRec.com: Is there a setup fee?

No. Site build, onboarding and training are included in the annual fee.

Varonis Data Security Platform: On-premises or SaaS?

It is now sold principally as SaaS, with edge collectors deployed on your network to reach on-premises file shares and directories. Older on-premises deployments with Windows collectors and SQL Server still exist in the field and are being migrated.

MyRec.com: Are card fees included?

No. Credit card processing is separate and you arrange your own merchant account.

Varonis Data Security Platform: Does it need agents on every server?

Generally no. It collects through APIs and network protocols with service accounts, with collectors deployed near the data rather than agents on every host. That is one reason deployment is less invasive than the scale of the data suggests.

MyRec.com: Is there a contract?

No long-term contract is required, which is unusual in municipal software.

Varonis Data Security Platform: How long until it is useful?

Expect weeks to a few months depending on the size of the file estate and how quickly the service accounts and access are approved. The classification and behavioural baselining both need time before the alerts mean anything.

Varonis Data Security Platform: Can it fix the problems it finds automatically?

Yes, it can remove global access groups, repair broken inheritance and quarantine exposed files under policy. Most organisations run this in simulation first, because automatically changing permissions on live business data goes wrong loudly.

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