Varonis Atlas - AI Security
Author: Beth Laws
Release Date: 12/07/2026
The rapid adoption of AI has outpaced the level of necessary security, creating significant risks around data privacy and compliance. Varonis Atlas is a tool to help discover, govern and protect AI, providing Security teams with visibility and control of AI in the business throughout the whole AI lifecycle.
The Importance of AI Security
The rapid adoption of AI has significantly outpaced the surrounding security and compliance needs, creating substantial risks and concerns for organisations regarding data privacy, GDPR adherence and potential data breaches. Because AI agents frequently access data based on existing user permissions, inadequate access controls can lead to the accidental exposure of sensitive information to unauthorised employees. In addition, organisations face challenges understanding where AIis being used in a business and whether any custom AI agents have been implemented. Consequently, effective AI deployment requires a proactive approach to data governance, where a tool like Varonis Atlas is essential for providing the necessary visibility and control to secure the data fueling the AI lifecycle.
Consequently, effective AI deployment requires a proactive approach to data governance, where a tool like Varonis Atlas is essential for providing the necessary visibility and control to secure the data fueling the AI lifecycle.
Varonis Atlas Features
Varonis Atlas covers the AI lifecycle across three key areas: Visibility and Posture, Protection, and Governance. Its core capabilities include:
AI Inventory:
Atlas discovers and logs AI usage in your environment, including well-known tools such as Gemini, as well as custom LLMs, agents and chatbots being employed by different teams throughout the organisation. Varonis Atlas creates an AI Inventory dashboard, clearly displaying AIs being monitored for full security team visibility. By reducing the blast radius, you ensure that when an AI crawls your environment, it only can access what the specific user is allowed to see, preventing sensitive data being accidentally exposed by AI.
AI Security Posture Management (AI SPM):
Monitors for misconfigurations, risky settings, and vulnerabilities, such as publicly exposed cloud storage used by AI, to maintain a strong security posture.
AI Pen Testing:
Includes a dedicated tab in the Atlas interface displaying the built-in ready-to-use pen tests Varonis Atlas has. These can be utilised to test an AIs response to threats like prompt injections, jailbreaks, and discrimination.
AI Monitoring:
Provides a complete audit trail of all AI interactions, including complete conversation logs with employees, any accessed data by the AI, any data created and details on whether any guardrail blocks have been applied.
AI Runtime Guardrails:
Implements policies to control AI outputs, block malicious or non-compliant usage, and apply prompt and response guards. These ensure control over the AI responses and the prompts employees may be asking AI. It’s possible to stop confidential data such as source codes being shared by AI, or prevent employees asking AI about specific topics.
AI Detection and Response:
Uses built-in threat models to detect malicious behaviors like prompt injections or jailbreak attempts. It includes an incident pane for visibility, with plans for integration into MDDR services.
AI Compliance Management:
Helps ensure regulatory compliance through built-in, out-of-the-box reports, helping to show compliance with data regulations or AI frameworks. Compliance dashboards, and automated guardrails that prevent unauthorized data sharing also contribute to ensuring compliance.
AI Third Party Risk Management (AI TPRM):
Features a dedicated TPRM AI dashboard to manage risks associated with AI tools used by vendors and suppliers.
Conclusion
While Varonis Atlas provides a comprehensive solution covering visibility, governance and protection over the complete AI lifecycle, the Varonis Data Security Platform remains a vital foundation for organisations preparing to implement AI securely and is a great addition working alongside Varonis Atlas. The Data Security Platform focuses on classifying sensitive information used by AI, remediating access controls to prevent unauthorized AI data exposure and threat detection and investigation of activity from AI accounts. Security teams can feel reassured that only appropriate sensitive data is accessible to AI and they are prepared for implementing AI, complementing the features throughout the whole AI lifecycle that Varonis Atlas brings.
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