You Are Migrating Anyway
Staying on Varonis now means a new deployment model, new architecture review and new policy validation. The effort is similar either way. The outcome is not.
Sentra vs Varonis
Varonis On-Prem Ends in 2026. Pick the Platform for the Next Five Years.
You have to migrate either way. Move to an agentless data security platform that scans inside your environment, covers cloud, SaaS, and on-prem, and governs what AI can reach. We will cover up to 11 months of your remaining Varonis contract.
Varonis self-hosted end of support
Dec 31, 2026
Your two options
A
Migrate to Varonis SaaS
New deployment model, new architecture to validate, policies to rebuild. Same platform philosophy.
B
Switch to Sentra
Operational in about 2 weeks, full coverage within 60 days, remaining Varonis term bought out. Built for cloud, SaaS, on-prem and AI.
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Your Data Moved to the Cloud. AI Agents Are Acting On It. Your Platform Should Keep Up.
Varonis was built to protect file shares, SharePoint and Active Directory. Today sensitive data lives across AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks, SaaS apps and on-prem, and copilots and AI agents are reaching it at machine speed. If you are going to spend the time and budget on a migration, choose the platform built for where your data is going.
Your Data Estate Changed
Hundreds of cloud accounts, thousands of data stores, petabytes of structured and unstructured data. Visibility should not require infrastructure in every location.
AI Changed Who Reads Your Data
Copilots, models and agents now access enterprise data alongside people. You need to know what AI can see and control it continuously.
Why Enterprises Choose Sentra Over Varonis
Capability
Varonis
Deployment
Agentless, cloud-native connectors. No collectors, outposts or appliances. Most environments fully operational in about 2 weeks.
Extensive per-system setup and configuration. Long deployment cycles driven by system-specific integrations.
Where data is scanned
Inside your environment, in the same region as the data. Only labels and risk scores leave. No data egress to negotiate.
The SaaS migration changes where processing happens. Ask exactly where your sensitive data goes during scanning.
Structured and unstructured data across IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS, data warehouses, SaaS and on-prem, from one platform.
Rooted in on-prem file systems and unstructured data. Limited depth across cloud PaaS and databases.
Classification
AI-driven and context-aware. 250+ classifiers, 130+ file formats, 98%+ accuracy, under 3% false positives, validated by a third party.
Pattern and rule-based policies that require tuning per system to stay accurate.
Scale and scan cost
9 PB in under 72 hours. Incremental delta rescans cut ongoing scan cost by roughly 90% versus full rescans.
Infrastructure and scan overhead grow with every new data source you add.
AI data security
Maps every copilot, agent and model to the data it can reach. Shadow AI DLP stops sensitive data from being pasted or uploaded into AI tools.
Copilot readiness focused on the Microsoft ecosystem.
Identity and access
Links each sensitive asset to the users, service accounts, apps and AI agents that can reach it, across cloud and SaaS.
Strong permission analysis for file systems and Active Directory. Machine identities in the cloud are harder to see.
Remediation
Labels, tickets and access changes flow to Purview, DLP, IAM, SIEM, SOAR, ServiceNow and Jira. No parallel stack.
Remediation centered on its own platform and supported data stores.
Ease of use
Built for security, privacy, compliance and data teams to answer questions in a few clicks.
Deep but complex. Many teams rely on specialists or services to operate it.
Pricing
Based on the data actually scanned. Not users, seats or infrastructure size.
Tied to users, endpoints or number of systems, which gets expensive at scale.
Sentra Comes to Your Data. Your Data Never Comes to Sentra.
Protecting sensitive data should not create a new copy of it. Every scan runs in your accounts, then shuts down.
Scanners Launch in Your Cloud
Short-lived, read-only scanners start inside your account, in the same region as the data. Nothing to install.
Discover and Classify
250+ built-in classifiers and AI models read the data on the scanner. Only labels and risk scores leave.
Map Access
Every sensitive asset is linked to the users, service accounts, applications and AI agents that can reach it.
Act Through Your Stack
Labels, tickets and access changes flow to Purview, DLP, IAM, SIEM and SOAR. Scanners shut down when done.
Everything You Use Varonis For, Plus What It Was Never Built to Do
One agentic data security platform that runs in your environment and powers every module.
Data Discovery
Petabyte-scale discovery with smart sampling, metadata clustering and delta rescans. Finds shadow data: forgotten buckets, ungoverned SharePoint, stale backups.
Replaces Varonis classification
Identity & Access
Lineage-driven access map across people, service principals and AI agents. Turn access sprawl into least privilege, automatically.
Replaces Varonis permissions analysis
Data Hygiene
Deduplicate, enforce retention with legal holds honored, and mask PII at the source before it feeds any AI pipeline or RAG index.
Replaces stale data cleanup projects
Shadow AI DLP
Inventory every copilot, agent and model. Discover AI usage across the company and block, warn or require justification before sensitive data reaches ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
Beyond Varonis
Automated Remediation
Universal labeling across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and cloud storage. Quarantine high-risk files, revoke over-privileged access, route tickets to data owners.
Works with your existing stack
Continuous Compliance
GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CCPA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF, with audit trails for every classification and access event.
In-environment by design
Same Data. Same Test. Sentra Won Every Round.
A Fortune 500 company ran Sentra and a top emerging DSPM vendor side by side on its own environment.
Scale
Accuracy
Cost at 100 PB
9 PB scanned
<72 hrs
>98%
<1% FPs/FNs
~$40,000 /yr
to scan 100 PB
A Top Emerging DSPM Vendor
1 PB scan failed
~60 hrs
<93%
>5% FPs/FNs
$400,000+ /yr
to scan 100 PB
Switch Assurance Offer
Still Under a Varonis Contract? We Will Buy It Out.
≤11 mo
Contract Buyout
Sentra covers the remaining value of your Varonis contract for up to 11 months. Direct coverage of your exit cost, not a credit against future invoices.
60 days
Migration Support
A dedicated migration team maps your Varonis classification policies, replicates coverage in Sentra and keeps your governance posture intact. Need longer than 60 days? Covered at no extra cost.
~2 weeks
Fast Deployment
Cloud-native connectors with no outpost to stand up and no third-party environment to configure. Most environments are fully operational within two weeks of signature.
Eligibility: accounts with ACV above $100K and up to 11 months remaining on a Varonis contract. Requires a minimum 12-month Sentra term in addition to the buyout period. Limited program pool, allocated first qualified, first served.
Gartner Peer Insights Highest Recommended DSPM Platform
- 4.7Evaluation & Contracting
- 4.6Integration & Deployment
- 4.8Service & Support
98.5%Recommendation Rate
The Sentra Advantage Built for the Agentic Era
The ROI numbers that matter
ROI
~6x
Return on Investment
$5.76M in quantified 3-year benefits against ~$955K in total costs — before NPV is finalized.
Labor savings
90%
Less Manual Governance Work
7 FTEs reclaimed from manual oversight. $3M saved over 3 years. Risk focus, not data wrangling.
Compliance
94%
Reduction in DLP Coverage Scope
DLP scope drops from
3,500 to 210 employees. $329K saved annually, plus 1 FTE freed from false-positive triage.
Cloud costs
$375K
Avoided Cloud Spend per Year
Shadow data visibility reclaims 1.5% of cloud spend. One customer cut 110 databases worth $1.1M/year.
Run the Bake-Off
Don’t Migrate by Default. Test Both on Your Data.
Put Sentra next to Varonis SaaS in your own environment. Score them on the five things that decide the next five years.
Time to Coverage
How many days until every data store is scanned?
Classification Accuracy
Count false positives on a labeled sample of your own files.
Where Your Data Goes
Trace exactly what leaves your environment during a scan.
Scan Performance and Cost
Compare initial scan time and the compute bill for rescans.
Everyday Usability
Can your team answer “what can Copilot see?” without a specialist?
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Prevent sensitive data exposure
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Don’t Waste a Forced Migration.
See what replacing Varonis with Sentra looks like in your environment, and how much of your remaining contract we can cover.