SIEM Is Not Enough: Why You Need DAM for Your Databases
Varonis, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Varonis argues shipping native database audit logs to a SIEM was never database security, and agents make that gap untenable.
Varonis attacks the long-standing database security playbook: deploy Imperva or Guardium on the ten or twenty most critical databases at seven-figure cost over eighteen months, then turn on native audit for the other several hundred, ship the logs to a SIEM and call it monitoring.
That made sense when Database Activity Monitoring was hard, when only regulated databases were worth protecting, and when the riskiest users were human.
None of those assumptions hold now that hundreds or thousands of autonomous agents query those databases, and Varonis calls the ship-it-to-Splunk half of the playbook compliance theater rather than security. It positions Varonis Next-Gen DAM as bringing every database into a unified data security platform through native audit collection.