Varonis on-premises end-of-life: What it means for your organization and how ADAudit Plus can help

Varonis has announced that it will end support for its self-hosted Data Security Platform by December 31, 2026. The company is going all in on SaaS, and on-premises customers are being asked to migrate to the Varonis cloud platform before the deadline.

If your organization runs Varonis on-premises, this gives you roughly six months to decide between two paths: move to the cloud and embrace Varonis' SaaS offering, or move to a vendor that is committed to on-premises deployment for the long term.

What Varonis announced

Varonis has confirmed that support for the self-hosted product ends on December 31, 2026, with no further updates after that date. What it has not publicly detailed is whether any emergency support or security patching exists for customers who have not migrated by then.

What this means if you run Varonis on-premises

For many organizations, moving to SaaS works well. But if you run isolated networks with no internet access, or you are legally required to keep data inside your country, or simply have a policy that audit data stays inside your network, a SaaS-only vendor forces an architectural decision you may not want to make.

Where ADAudit Plus fits

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a UBA-driven auditor for Active Directory (AD), Entra ID, file servers, Windows servers, and workstations. It is deployed and managed on your own infrastructure, and your audit data stays with you.

If you primarily used Varonis on-premises for hybrid AD auditing, file activity monitoring, threat detection and response, and compliance reporting, here's what ADAudit Plus gives you:

  • Unified visibility: ADAudit Plus consolidates auditing, security, and compliance across AD, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Windows servers, workstations, and file servers (Windows, NetApp, EMC, and more) into a single pane of glass, eliminating the need to juggle multiple tools.

  • Threat detection: UBA establishes baseline activity patterns and flags anomalies such as unusual logon failure volumes or mass file access. The attack surface analyzer detects 25+ AD attacks, risky configurations across GPOs, Azure, AWS, and GCP.

  • Real-time alerts and automated response: Get notified by email or SMS on critical activities, and trigger scripts to disable an account or shut down a device when an alert fires.

  • Audit-ready compliance reports: Predefined reports for SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, FISMA, GLBA, and ISO 27001, with automated generation and delivery.

  • Long-term log retention: Retain audit data for as long as your compliance requirements demand in your own storage.

Why the switch to ADAudit Plus is low risk:

  • You can evaluate it fully before committing: ADAudit Plus offers a 30-day fully functional trial, and most teams go from download to predefined reports and alerts in around 15 minutes.

  • Per-server licensing: ADAudit Plus is licensed by the number of domain controllers (DCs), file servers, and other servers you audit, not by user count. Your costs do not climb just because your headcount does. Pricing starts at $595 per year for two DCs.

  • Proven track record: ADAudit Plus is trusted by around 30,000 organizations and has been named a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for SIEM for four consecutive years.

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