Varonis Data Security Services by e3

Discover your sensitive data. Reduce exposure. Protect your crown jewels.

Most organisations do not have a data problem because they have too little information.

They have a problem because they have too much data, too much access and too little visibility into where their most critical information is exposed.

Sensitive information is distributed across:

• Microsoft 365;
• SharePoint;
• OneDrive;
• Teams;
• cloud platforms;
• SaaS applications;
• file systems;
• databases;
• email;
• hybrid environments.

At the same time, AI makes that information easier to find, combine and use.

The management question is therefore no longer simply:

“Where is our data?”

It is:

“Where is our critical data, who can access it, how is it being used and are we still in control?”

e3 helps organisations answer these questions using the Varonis Data Security Platform combined with e3 expertise in Data Protection, DSPM, DLP, Insider Risk, Microsoft Purview, AI Security and digital sovereignty.

From data visibility to actual risk reduction

Many security platforms are very good at identifying problems.

The challenge is what happens afterwards.

A typical DSPM assessment may identify:

• millions of files;
• sensitive information;
• open sharing links;
• excessive permissions;
• abandoned data;
• external users;
• risky configurations.

But a long list of findings does not automatically make an organisation safer.

The real objective should be:

Find the sensitive data → Understand the exposure → Prioritise the risk → Remediate it → Continuously monitor the result

This is one of the areas where Varonis differs from a discovery-only approach.

Varonis combines data discovery and classification with access intelligence, automated remediation, activity monitoring and threat detection.

e3 helps organisations translate those capabilities into an operational Data Security programme.

Varonis Data Security Posture Management

Varonis DSPM continuously discovers, maps, monitors and protects sensitive information across cloud, SaaS, databases, file storage and hybrid environments.

For management, DSPM should answer four fundamental questions:

Where is our sensitive information?

Who can access it?

Is that access still necessary?

Is the data being used in a way that creates risk?

Varonis combines these dimensions rather than looking at data sensitivity in isolation.

That matters because a confidential file accessible only to two authorised users represents a very different risk from the same file accessible to thousands of employees or through a public link.

Find your digital crown jewels

At e3, we recommend starting Data Security with the information that matters most to the organisation.

We call these your digital crown jewels.

Examples may include:

• intellectual property;
• source code;
• product designs;
• customer databases;
• contracts;
• pricing models;
• R&D information;
• financial information;
• strategic plans;
• merger and acquisition information.

Varonis can help discover and classify these information assets across complex data environments.

But discovery alone is not enough.

e3 helps organisations determine:

• why the information matters;
• who should own it;
• who should have access;
• what level of protection is appropriate;
• which exposures should be remediated first.

Data Discovery & Classification

Before sensitive data can be protected, it must be identified.

Varonis continuously discovers and classifies data across connected repositories.

This enables organisations to identify information such as:

• personal data;
• financial information;
• intellectual property;
• confidential documents;
• credentials;
• regulated information;
• business-specific sensitive data.

Varonis also integrates with Microsoft Purview so organisations can use discovered information to support labelling and DLP policies.

e3 can help organisations connect Varonis discovery with an existing or planned Microsoft Purview classification strategy.

Classification should reflect your business

Standard classifiers are useful.

But they rarely capture everything that is strategically important to an organisation.

For example, a standard classifier may identify:

• credit card numbers;
• national identification numbers;
• medical information.

But it may not recognise:

• proprietary engineering specifications;
• unique manufacturing processes;
• product roadmaps;
• pricing models;
• strategic contracts.

e3 helps organisations extend classification beyond compliance and towards business-critical information.

Access Intelligence

One of the strongest elements of the Varonis approach is understanding access.

A document can be securely stored and still represent a major security risk if too many people can reach it.

Varonis maps effective permissions, group memberships, sharing links and other access paths to provide visibility into who can actually access sensitive information.

This enables organisations to answer questions such as:

Why does this employee have access?

How did that access arise?

Is it direct or inherited?

Is access still required?

Is the information exposed externally?

Reduce excessive access

Over time, access typically expands.

Employees change roles.

Projects end.

Teams reorganise.

External users remain in systems.

Permissions accumulate.

The result is often far more access than the organisation intended.

This creates a large data blast radius.

Varonis is designed to identify excessive access and automatically remediate risk, including removing unnecessary permissions and fixing risky configurations.

e3 helps organisations establish the governance needed around this remediation.

The objective is:

Give people access to the data they need — and no more.

Automated remediation

Data Security programmes often struggle because remediation requires too much manual work.

Thousands of findings are discovered, but only a small percentage are actually resolved.

Varonis focuses strongly on automation.

Depending on the environment and use case, remediation can include:

• removing excessive permissions;
• correcting risky sharing;
• addressing misconfigurations;
• applying policies;
• reducing exposure.

Varonis specifically positions automated remediation as a core element of its Data Security Platform.

e3 helps customers determine:

• which remediation can be automated;
• which changes require approval;
• which business owners should be involved;
• how exceptions should be handled.

Varonis Data Loss Prevention

Varonis also provides Data Loss Prevention capabilities designed to discover sensitive data, reduce exposure, monitor activity and detect potential data exfiltration.

This creates an important connection between:

Data at rest

and

Data in use.

Traditional DLP often starts by looking at an activity:

“Someone attempted to move sensitive information.”

Varonis adds additional context:

“Was that information already excessively exposed? Who normally accesses it? Is this activity unusual for this person?”

This context can significantly improve prioritisation.

Data Detection & Response

Data Security is increasingly moving beyond prevention alone.

Organisations also need to detect when something unusual is happening with sensitive information.

Varonis provides a searchable audit trail of data access and activity and builds behavioural baselines for users to help identify threats.

This is commonly referred to as Data Detection and Response — DDR.

It enables security teams to examine questions such as:

• Who accessed the information?
• What did they access?
• Was the activity unusual?
• Were permissions changed?
• Was information shared externally?
• Was a large volume of data accessed?
• Did activity differ from normal behaviour?

Insider Risk Management

Not every data breach starts with an external attacker.

Sensitive information can also be exposed through:

• careless employees;
• compromised accounts;
• malicious insiders;
• departing employees;
• contractors;
• privileged users.

Varonis Insider Risk Management combines information about:

data sensitivity + access + user behaviour

to identify activities that may require investigation.

Examples can include:

• unusual file access;
• large-volume downloads;
• unexpected permission changes;
• removal of labels or protections;
• abnormal information sharing.

Context matters

A security event without context can easily become noise.

For example:

An engineer accessing hundreds of design documents may be completely normal.

A user from another department suddenly accessing the same information may deserve investigation.

This is why e3 believes Data Security should combine:

What is the data?

Who is accessing it?

Should they have access?

Is the behaviour normal?

That combination is much more useful than a simple alert.

Protect Microsoft 365 data

Microsoft 365 has become one of the most important information environments in many organisations.

Sensitive information exists across:

• SharePoint;
• OneDrive;
• Teams;
• Exchange;
• Microsoft 365 collaboration environments.

Over time, access can become difficult to understand because of:

• group memberships;
• nested permissions;
• sharing links;
• external users;
• Teams memberships;
• historical access.

Varonis provides visibility into sensitive information and access relationships across these environments.

e3 can combine this capability with Microsoft Purview.

Varonis + Microsoft Purview

Varonis and Microsoft Purview can be complementary.

Varonis can help organisations discover sensitive information and understand:

• where it resides;
• who can reach it;
• how it is being used;
• where excessive access exists.

Microsoft Purview can then provide controls such as:

• sensitivity labels;
• Information Protection;
• Data Loss Prevention;
• encryption;
• Insider Risk.

Varonis itself supports integration with Microsoft Purview labels and DLP workflows.

e3 has expertise in both areas and can help organisations design a combined architecture.

Secure data before deploying AI

Generative AI creates an important new reason to improve Data Security.

AI makes information easier to discover.

That can be beneficial.

But if users already have excessive access to sensitive information, AI can make that exposure much easier to exploit.

The fundamental principle is:

AI should not have access to information that the user — or agent — should never have been able to reach in the first place.

That means organisations should understand their data and permissions before dramatically increasing AI accessibility.

Varonis and AI Security

Varonis currently positions its platform around securing AI and the data that powers it.

Its Data Security Platform is designed to connect sensitive-data discovery, permissions, user behaviour and threat detection across cloud, SaaS, hybrid and AI environments.

This is especially relevant as organisations deploy:

• Microsoft Copilot;
• generative AI;
• AI agents;
• enterprise AI applications.

e3 helps organisations connect AI Security with the underlying Data Security problem.

AI cannot fix poor data governance

An AI deployment may expose a problem that has existed for years.

For example:

A user technically had access to 100,000 documents but never knew they existed.

Then Copilot arrives.

The information suddenly becomes searchable through natural-language questions.

The problem was not created by AI.

AI made an existing access problem visible.

Therefore, one of the most important AI readiness activities is:

reduce unnecessary access before AI dramatically increases data discoverability.

Varonis is well suited to this problem because access intelligence and automated permissions remediation are central to its platform.

Data Lifecycle Management

Not all information should be retained forever.

Large organisations often maintain significant volumes of:

• redundant data;
• obsolete information;
• duplicate files;
• expired content;
• trivial information.

This is commonly referred to as ROT data — Redundant, Obsolete and Trivial data.

In September 2026, Varonis introduced Data Lifecycle Management capabilities designed to identify, prioritise and quarantine ROT data using classification, permissions and activity information.

Reducing unnecessary data can help organisations:

• reduce security exposure;
• lower storage requirements;
• simplify compliance;
• improve AI data quality.

Compliance and Data Security

Varonis can also support compliance initiatives by identifying sensitive information and monitoring access across data environments.

Varonis maps Data Security capabilities against frameworks and regulations including GDPR, NIST and other compliance requirements.

But e3 recommends treating compliance as an outcome rather than the primary objective.

The stronger management question is:

Are we actually protecting the information that matters?

If that is done properly, compliance becomes much easier to demonstrate.

The e3 Varonis Services

Technology alone does not create Data Security.

e3 provides services around the Varonis platform to help organisations turn technical capabilities into measurable Data Protection outcomes.

1. e3 Varonis Data Security Assessment

Before implementing or expanding Varonis, e3 can assess the current Data Security situation.

The assessment can examine:

• critical data;
• existing repositories;
• Microsoft 365;
• cloud environments;
• access structures;
• excessive permissions;
• existing DLP;
• data classification;
• Insider Risk;
• AI exposure;
• governance.

The result is a prioritised Data Security roadmap.

2. Varonis DSPM Implementation

e3 can support the implementation and operationalisation of Varonis DSPM.

This can include:

• architecture;
• onboarding data sources;
• classification configuration;
• access analysis;
• policy definition;
• risk prioritisation;
• dashboards;
• remediation workflows.

The objective is not simply to deploy software.

The objective is to create an operational process that continuously identifies and reduces data exposure.

3. Data Discovery & Classification Services

e3 helps organisations determine which information should be discovered and how it should be classified.

This includes:

• sensitive-data definitions;
• crown jewel identification;
• regulatory information;
• business-specific classification;
• validation;
• tuning;
• integration with Microsoft Purview.

4. Permissions & Access Remediation

Finding excessive permissions is only the beginning.

e3 can help organisations develop a controlled approach for reducing them.

This includes:

• identifying high-risk access;
• prioritising sensitive data;
• defining ownership;
• designing approval workflows;
• defining exceptions;
• implementing automated remediation where appropriate.

5. Varonis DLP Services

e3 can support organisations using Varonis Data Loss Prevention capabilities.

Services can include:

• DLP strategy;
• policy design;
• detection requirements;
• policy tuning;
• false-positive reduction;
• incident workflows;
• operational optimisation.

Our focus is always on protecting business-critical information rather than simply increasing the number of DLP policies.

6. Insider Risk Services

e3 helps organisations turn Varonis behavioural and data-activity information into an operational Insider Risk capability.

This can include:

• Insider Risk use cases;
• detection scenarios;
• investigation processes;
• privacy;
• governance;
• escalation;
• HR and Legal involvement;
• case-handling procedures.

7. Varonis & Microsoft Purview Integration

For Microsoft-centric organisations, e3 can design a combined Varonis and Purview architecture.

This may include:

• Varonis data discovery;
• access intelligence;
• permissions remediation;
• Purview classification;
• sensitivity labels;
• Purview DLP;
• Insider Risk Management.

The objective is to use the strength of each platform rather than creating duplicate controls.

8. Varonis AI Readiness Assessment

Before rolling out Microsoft Copilot or other enterprise AI, e3 can assess whether sensitive information is sufficiently protected.

The review can examine:

• excessive permissions;
• sensitive information;
• open sharing;
• external access;
• stale data;
• AI-accessible repositories;
• classification;
• data ownership.

The result provides an AI Data Security readiness roadmap.

9. Varonis Health Check & Optimisation

For organisations that already use Varonis, e3 can perform a structured health check.

This can cover:

• platform coverage;
• data sources;
• classifiers;
• access findings;
• policies;
• alert quality;
• remediation;
• operational processes;
• reporting;
• business adoption.

The objective is to identify where the organisation can obtain more value from its existing investment.

10. Managed Varonis Services

Data Security is continuous.

New information appears.

Permissions change.

Employees change roles.

New cloud environments are introduced.

AI changes how information is accessed.

e3 can therefore provide operational support around Varonis.

Managed services can include:

• platform management;
• findings review;
• policy optimisation;
• access-risk prioritisation;
• remediation coordination;
• classification tuning;
• incident support;
• executive reporting.

Varonis itself also offers 24x7x365 MDDR capabilities around threat monitoring and investigation, which can be incorporated into the wider operating model.

From DSPM dashboard to Data Security programme

This is an important distinction.

Buying DSPM does not automatically create Data Security.

A mature programme requires:

Technology + Data Ownership + Governance + Remediation + Continuous Operation

e3 helps connect these components.

The goal is to move from:

“We have discovered 25,000 data risks.”

to:

“We know which risks matter and are continuously reducing them.”

Why e3 for Varonis?

Data Protection specialisation

e3 specialises in protecting critical business information.

Our experience covers:

• DLP;
• DSPM;
• Insider Risk;
• Information Protection;
• AI Security;
• encryption;
• digital sovereignty.

Start with your crown jewels

We do not start with dashboards.

We start with the data that is most important to the organisation.

This makes prioritisation much more meaningful.

Microsoft expertise

Many Varonis environments are heavily connected to Microsoft 365.

e3 has specialist expertise in Microsoft Purview DLP, Information Protection, classification, sensitivity labels and Insider Risk.

This enables us to connect Varonis with the broader Microsoft Data Security architecture.

Vendor-independent expertise

e3 works across technologies including:

• Varonis;
• Microsoft Purview;
• Forcepoint;
• Proofpoint;
• Broadcom Symantec;
• Netskope;
• Zscaler.

That means our recommendations can start with the customer’s requirements rather than with one technology.

From assessment to operation

e3 can support the complete lifecycle:

Assess → Discover → Classify → Remediate → Protect → Monitor → Optimise

The CEO perspective

For executive management, Varonis should ultimately help answer five questions:

1. Do we know where our critical information is?

2. Do we know who can access it?

3. Is that access actually necessary?

4. Can we detect when the information is being used abnormally?

5. Can we demonstrate that we are continuously reducing exposure?

That is the difference between having a Data Security tool and having an effective Data Security programme.

Do you know who can access your crown jewels?

Many organisations know where their critical systems are.

Far fewer can demonstrate who can actually reach the most sensitive information inside them.

And with AI increasing the speed at which information can be discovered and used, this visibility is becoming even more important.

e3 helps organisations use Varonis to:

Discover critical data.
Understand access.
Reduce exposure.
Detect risk.
Protect the crown jewels.

Talk to e3 about your Varonis Data Security strategy.

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We would be happy to meet, learn more about your environment and explore how we can help protect your critical data.

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