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BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwired) -- 01/15/14 -- As the holiday season produces massive volumes of data on consumer spending trends, the global information experts at the NPD Group are benefitting from unprecedented transparency into data access and usage. The reason is technology from Varonis Systems, Inc., a provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data. The NPD Group relies on Varonis DatAdvantage to monitor, analyze and manage who has access to the company's valuable data, and to successfully limit security exposure, meet industry security regulations and improve the efficiency with which the organization can handle the management of permission requests.

Al Mujtaba, NPD Group's VP of Enterprise Systems, said, "We brought Varonis DatAdvantage in as a security solution, but it's so much more than that at the end of the day. Ultimately, it helps me make better decisions around our environment and it helps with planning."

As a leading global information company and a renowned authority on everything from consumers' holiday spending trends to market acceptance of the latest technology gadgets, the NPD Group relies on leading-edge data management and delivery systems to produce the intelligence its clients need to make better business decisions. This data-intensive culture develops products and solutions for NPD clients that include tracking services, analytic solutions and advisory services.

In order to meet compliance regulations for access controls, NPD needed to have policies and procedures in place to restrict data to authorized users and to review users' access rights on an ongoing basis. With DatAdvantage, NPD is now able to create reports across Windows shares, UNIX/Linux systems and SharePoint that provide full insight into who has access to which files and who is actually accessing the data in order to more efficiently enable the organization to meet ISO 27001 regulations. Additionally, by reviewing the log activity, system admins can now spot unusual activities and immediately close any security holes.

"Before Varonis, we were getting requests for upwards of ten tickets per week to perform restores for files that were thought to be deleted," NPD's Mujtaba said. "A restore costs $300 to recall the tape and install the file in our environment, involving about four or five man hours. With DatAdvantage, we discovered that the data was often accidentally moved to another location by the user. This was a significant savings in terms of staff resources and money."

Because NPD's data set is available to a constantly changing pool of consultants, it was necessary for the system admins to regularly monitor and update permissions. With DatAdvantage, access controls have been improved, access to critical data is monitored and the data is better protected.

David Gibson, Varonis VP of Marketing, said, "NPD Group tracks businesses representing over $1 trillion in sales. This includes staggering amounts of data. With the help of Varonis, they are able to more effectively and efficiently manage their data and both achieve and surpass industry regulations, while boosting productivity. We are helping thousands of organizations worldwide, from the largest corporations down to 20-person data-intensive organizations, do the same things."

For the full Varonis case study on NPD Group, visit http://www.varonis.com/customers.

To find out more about Varonis and DatAdvantage, visit www.varonis.com.

About Varonis
Varonis provides an innovative software platform that allows enterprises to map, analyze, manage and migrate their unstructured data. Varonis specializes in human-generated data, a type of unstructured data that includes an enterprise's spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations, audio files, video files, emails, text messages and any other data created by employees. This data often contains an enterprise's financial information, product plans, strategic initiatives, intellectual property and numerous other forms of vital information. IT and business personnel deploy Varonis software for a variety of use cases, including data governance, data security, archiving, file synchronization, enhanced mobile data accessibility and information collaboration. As of September 30, 2013, Varonis had more than 2,100 customers, spanning leading firms in the financial services, public, consumer and retail, technology, healthcare, media & entertainment, energy & utilities, education and industrial sectors.

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