Business Description

We were incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on November 3, 2004 and commenced operations on January 1, 2005. Our principal offices are located at 801 Brickell Avenue, Miami, FL 33131. For convenience in this report, the terms “Company,” “Varonis,” “we” and “us” may be used to refer to Varonis Systems, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries, except where indicated otherwise. Our telephone number is (877) 292-8767. Overview Varonis is a data security company focused on protecting what matters most to organizations: their data. Modern enterprises run on data that is created, copied, shared and accessed across cloud services, SaaS applications and on-premises environments, often faster than security teams can see, understand or control. We started Varonis around a simple observation that we believe has only intensified over time: the ability to create and share data scales far faster than the ability to secure it. Our strategy is built around closing that gap, giving organizations the deep visibility and automated controls to deeply understand their enterprise data, reduce exposure and respond to threats quickly, wherever their data lives. Data growth itself is not new. What has changed is the combination of scale, sprawl and speed. Cloud transformation and artificial intelligence ("AI") initiatives are pushing data into more systems, across more environments and making it accessible to more users, applications and AI agents. As adoption of software-a-service (“SaaS”) and infrastructure-as-a-service (“IaaS”) has accelerated collaboration and productivity, it has also expanded and fragmented the enterprise data footprint. In many organizations, data security controls have not kept pace, increasing the likelihood that misconfigurations or credential compromise can lead to significant data exposure, threats and regulatory penalties. We believe the adoption of AI materially raises the stakes for security and risk. Copilots, agents and automated workflows are now embedded in widely used enterprise platforms such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace and Box and they increasingly act on data at machine speed. These systems typically rely on existing access controls to determine what data can be surfaced, summarized or acted upon. When those controls are overly permissive, poorly understood and unmonitored, AI can unintentionally amplify risk by scaling access faster than organizations can manage manually. As companies customize AI agents and train their own small and large language models, we believe the security of data, identities, agents and underlying infrastructure will increasingly require automated solutions. In this environment, access becomes the risk multiplier. When too many people, systems or automated agents can reach sensitive data ungoverned, small incidents can quickly become large ones. We refer to this risk as the “blast radius.” We believe organizations must continuously reduce their blast radius – limiting unnecessary ability to access, move or misuse data – to reap the tremendous benefits of AI. Achieving this consistently and at scale isn’t possible through manual processes, making automation essential. At the same time, threat actors continue to refine their methods of monetizing sensitive data, and regulatory expectations around privacy, data protection, and AI governance continue to evolve. Many organizations are also operating under real constraints – the demand for skilled security professionals continues to exceed supply, and teams are expected to manage growing complexity with limited resources. We believe these pressures will continue to drive adoption of automated approaches that reduce data exposure by default and enable faster detection and response. Enterprises today rely on many combinations of data stores, cloud services and SaaS applications, making it difficult to understand data exposure holistically or control breach risk without a unified approach. We believe comprehensive coverage and automation are required to keep pace with the scale and complexity of modern data environments. Our platform has expanded from an initial focus on Windows files shares to cover a broad range of mission-critical cloud and on-premises data stores, cloud infrastructure environments, identity repositories, and key SaaS and AI applications.…