{"slug": "varonis-and-collibra-improving-data-governance-for-trusted-ai", "title": "Varonis and Collibra: Improving Data Governance for Trusted AI", "summary": "Varonis has integrated its data classification capabilities with Collibra's data catalog, pushing continuously updated sensitive-data context — including classifications for personally identifiable information, protected health information, financial information, credentials, secrets and regulated data — directly into Collibra governance workflows. Varonis said the integration lets data consumers, governance teams and security teams review sensitivity context alongside metadata, ownership, lineage and policies when deciding which datasets to use for analytics, data science and AI or agent development. The companies position the tie-up as a way to build trusted AI on governed data by combining security and governance context.", "body_md": "As organizations move faster to integrate AI, datasets are connected to models, agents, and analytics pipelines based on their metadata and lineage. But pressing questions often go unanswered: what’s sensitive, and who has access to it?\n\nSuccessful AI initiatives depend on trusted data that teams can find, understand, and use safely. That’s why [Varonis now integrates with Collibra](https://marketplace.collibra.com/listings/varonis-integration-with-collibra/) to bring continuously updated sensitive data context directly into Collibra’s data catalog. \n\nCollibra provides unified governance across data and AI, while Varonis identifies sensitive and regulated information across the data estate. Together, the integration helps organizations make better-informed decisions about which data to use for analytics, data science, and AI and agent development.\n\n## Add sensitive data context to Collibra\n\nCollibra helps organizations discover data, understand its meaning and lineage, establish ownership and policies, and connect trusted datasets to business and AI use cases.\n\nThe Varonis integration enriches Collibra catalog assets with [classification insights](https://www.varonis.com/platform/data-discovery-and-classification?hsLang=en) that identify sensitive and regulated data. Users can review this sensitivity context alongside metadata, ownership, lineage, policies, and other governance information available in Collibra. \n\nWith this additional context, data consumers, governance teams, and security teams gain a more complete understanding of the information they are evaluating, making it easier to govern sensitive data, comply with regulations, and maintain privacy.\n\n## Identify sensitive and regulated data\n\nVaronis surfaces classifications for information, such as personally identifiable information, protected health information, financial information, credentials, secrets, and regulated data, within Collibra governance workflows.\n\nVaronis AI classification combines content understanding with business context, permissions intelligence, activity data, and explainable reasoning to identify what data is, why it matters, who it relates to, and the risk it creates. These insights can support security, governance, exposure analysis, threat detection, and automated remediation across the Varonis platform.\n\n*Var**onis* *classi**fie** s* *data sensitivity and send**s* *th**e* *results direct**ly to* *the Collibra data* *catalog.*\n\n## Make better-informed decisions about data and AI\n\nData users — from analysts to data scientists and AI engineers — can see what is sensitive directly within Collibra and use that context to make better decisions about which data is safe and appropriate to use.\n\nFor example, teams can more effectively evaluate:\n\n- \nWhich datasets should be made available to marketing teams for campaign analysis.\n\n- \nWhether customer data is appropriate for training or grounding a customer-facing AI application.\n\n- \nWhere data scientists can find governed data for analytics and model development.\n\n- \nHow regulated or sensitive information relates to internal policies and compliance requirements.\n\n## Build trusted AI on governed data\n\n[AI can only be trusted](https://www.varonis.com/blog/ai-data-security?hsLang=en) when organizations understand the data that powers it. Connecting Varonis classification with Collibra governance helps teams find appropriate data, identify sensitive information, and make informed decisions before that data is used for analytics or AI.\n\nWith Varonis and Collibra, organizations can bring security and governance context together to accelerate data and AI initiatives without losing visibility or control.\n\n### Learn how Varonis helps secure AI and the data that powers it.\n\nBelow are three ways you can continue your journey to reduce data risk at your company:\n\n[Schedule a demo with us](https://info.varonis.com/en/demo-request?hsLang=en) to see Varonis in action. We'll personalize the session to your org's data security needs and answer any questions.\n\n[See a sample of our Data Risk Assessment](https://www.varonis.com/hubfs/docs/DRA-sample.pdf?hsLang=en) and learn the risks that could be lingering in your environment. [Varonis' DRA](https://info.varonis.com/en/data-risk-assessment?hsLang=en) is completely free and offers a clear path to automated remediation.\n\nFollow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/varonis), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE9xUuH4lhIUDOFR1OHlNNg), and [X (Twitter)](https://twitter.com/varonis) for bite-sized insights on all things data security, including DSPM, threat detection, AI security, and more.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/varonis-and-collibra-improving-data-governance-for-trusted-ai", "canonical_source": "https://www.varonis.com/blog/varonis-and-collibra-integration", "published_at": "2026-10-20 12:45:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-20 13:15:47.774624+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Varonis", "Collibra"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/varonis-and-collibra-improving-data-governance-for-trusted-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/varonis-and-collibra-improving-data-governance-for-trusted-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/varonis-and-collibra-improving-data-governance-for-trusted-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/varonis-and-collibra-improving-data-governance-for-trusted-ai.jsonld"}}