Varonis Systems was founded by networking and storage experts Yaki Faitelson and Ohad Korkus. After spending years in the development, design and implementation of large scale networking and data management infrastructures for NetVision and Network Appliance, they came to a realization: The processes for monitoring who has access to sensitive data, finding data owners and controlling access to this data were fundamentally flawed since they were highly manual, resource intensive, and rarely ensured that rightful data access was consistently maintained.