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ArcSight Analytics vs Varonis Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 7, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ArcSight Analytics
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
13th
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Varonis Platform
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (19th), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (8th), Data Governance (4th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (4th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (3rd), Compliance Management (7th), Ransomware Protection (8th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (5th), Insider Risk Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) category, the mindshare of ArcSight Analytics is 1.6%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Varonis Platform is 5.2%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Varonis Platform5.2%
ArcSight Analytics1.6%
Other93.2%
User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
 

Featured Reviews

Subhadip Pakrashi - PeerSpot reviewer
A scalable solution that provides a deeper insight and threat analysis about the network
ArcSight Analytics is used to get a deeper insight and threat analysis about the network. The solution's threat analysis gives a good view of the network. We can then compare those vulnerabilities and CVS scores worldwide and get a good understanding of how likely the network is to be hit. The kind of report ArcSight Analytics gives is really good. ArcSight Analytics is a very scalable solution that is easy to deploy.
Fekri Hached - PeerSpot reviewer
Has improved data visibility and classification while supporting proactive security workflows
In my experience, the best features that Varonis Platform offers are data labeling, data classification, along with all the integrations and its easy-to-use platform. They have a really good setup, and their sales team and technical service are reliable; they hold monthly, weekly, and quarterly reviews, and they respond quickly to anything we need, which is not common among platforms. Varonis Platform has a big variety of integrations, and they continuously work on new updates and integrations, such as ChatGPT Enterprise and Zoom, ensuring that they meet any new needs that customers have, maintaining a roadmap for features that they constantly bring out. Since implementing Varonis Platform, we have noticed positive impacts in our organization. People are more careful when they go abroad, we have greater visibility, and it's very important for compliance to ensure we follow compliance rules, as we have some good reporting and the out-of-hours MDR service.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"ArcSight Analytics has improved our system and network policy monitoring."
"ArcSight Analytics is used to get a deeper insight and threat analysis about the network."
"The data collection and the integration with different products are valuable features."
"The correlation engine is good."
"One of the most valuable features is the alerts."
"This solution makes it easy to create use cases, and it is easy to move queries from use cases to the report to the dashboard."
"The two most valuable features of this solution are its stability and scalability."
"The most valuable features are that you get lots of connectors, which make it easy to log in to my ASM, and lots of prebuilt roles from the company."
"The 24/7 support is the most valuable feature. They have been able to answer support questions pretty quickly."
"The solution ensures that users have not accidentally shared sensitive information with the wrong people or too many people."
"The most important feature is remediation. In remediation support, there is no group permission. We'll go ahead and remediate the access from the Dell folder to the parent folder."
"It can easily identify unusual behavior or access patterns that may pose a potential threat, while operating as a unified reporting system."
"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."
"Varonis Platform support has been amazing throughout every step that we have taken with them."
"The solution's classification engine is highly configurable and efficient."
"The analytics would have to be our most valuable feature."
 

Cons

"It's a difficult product to navigate, it's complex."
"Their support team could be better."
"ArcSight is not a user-friendly solution and the interface needs to be improved."
"I would like to see integration with automation products, such as Phantom Automation."
"Currently, there are no compatible connectors for this solution, which means we have to depend on FlexConnectors."
"Inactive connections from servers, which are upgraded or downgraded within a VM, should be automatically revoked."
"It needs more user analytics and aggregation user queries. And it's slow. When you query over ArcSight, it is very slow."
"The interactive dashboard is complicated and you need to have training in order to use it, so I think that it could be made easier to use."
"I'd like to see automatic updates for this solution. Currently, it's a manual process to update all the keywords"
"For unstructured data monitoring, it's one of the top ones, if not the top one, due to its usability."
"It would be beneficial if the reporting in Varonis Platform could use PDFs instead of Excel for better graphs, as the dashboards are really good, and it would be nice to have simplified dashboards in PDF for business reporting purposes."
"The GUI should be more functional. There should be a process for connecting through Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc."
"Varonis requires more access permissions for its core functions compared to competitors, which can be a concern for companies about data safety."
"Varonis requires more access permissions for its core functions compared to competitors, which can be a concern for companies about data safety."
"One area for improvement is the calculation engine. When applying rules in Varonis, especially for large datasets (terabytes of data), the calculations can be slow and require time to process. Speeding up this process would be beneficial."
"The solution's areas of improvement are the interface and the dependency on on-premises deployment for some components."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The monthly licensing fee is around $20,000. There aren't any costs in addition to the standard licensing fee."
"It can range between $30,000 and $40,000 USD, and can go up to $500,000 and $600,000 USD."
"In addition to the costs of standard licensing fees, there is the cost of labor for maintenance."
"This solution is expensive."
"My customers pay a yearly licensing fee for ArcSight Analytics."
"ArcSight Analytics is a bit expensive compared with other tools in terms of licensing costs, training, hardware implementation, and support."
"Licensing is on an annual basis. Maintenance and renewal fees are separate. Varonis Datalert is quite expensive."
"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."
"You could do a subscription, where you pay yearly, or you could purchase it outright. The licensing cost is based on the number of users on the system that you are monitoring."
"It's expensive, kind of, really expensive."
"The pricing is good. It neither expensive nor cheap. It is average."
"The platform is expensive. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten."
"Varonis Platform wasn't certainly the cheapest solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Insurance Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What do you like most about ArcSight Analytics?
ArcSight Analytics is used to get a deeper insight and threat analysis about the network.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ArcSight Analytics?
My customers pay a yearly licensing fee for ArcSight Analytics.
What do you like most about Varonis Platform?
The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand w...
What needs improvement with Varonis Platform?
I would appreciate some improvements in reporting, specifically in PDF exports, although I think they are always working on new features. It would be beneficial if the reporting in Varonis Platform...
What is your primary use case for Varonis Platform?
The main use case for Varonis Platform is data security, data labeling, and data classification, as we have integrated it with Microsoft Purview, which facilitates the labeling side, and it also en...
 

Also Known As

ArcSight User Behavior Analytics, ArcSight UBA
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