New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The story of Varonis begins with a mystery. In 2003, a large oil and gas company lost millions of dollars' worth of high-resolution ocean-floor images stored on its file servers. Were they accidentally deleted? Stolen? No one could tell-there was no record of what had happened, and no way to narrow down the suspects.

From this disaster, two engineers-Yaki Faitelson and Ohad Korkus-saw an opportunity. With backgrounds in storage and systems, including experience at companies like NetApp and NetVision, they recognised that as enterprises created more data, they knew less about its security. In 2005, they founded Varonis Systems to give organisations the visibility and control needed to protect critical data.

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