Your customers' account data, loan files, and KYC records are already sitting somewhere they shouldn't be. Teleskope finds the exposure and resolves it, automatically, before it becomes a breach or a line item in your next exam.

Varonis is the toughest comparison we get in financial services, and worth taking seriously if you're already invested in it. But Varonis has formally announced end-of-life for its self-hosted, on-premises product, converting its remaining non-SaaS customers to its SaaS platform through 2027. If your compliance program depends on an air-gapped deployment, that option is disappearing from their roadmap. Teleskope is built to run fully air-gapped today, with zero data ever leaving your environment, and we have no plans to sunset it. Beyond deployment, Varonis's classification is still primarily regex and dictionary-based, which produces high false positive rates in complex environments, and its remediation is reactive rather than continuous. Teleskope classifies based on business context and remediates natively and continuously.

Yes. Teleskope is one of the only platforms in this category that still offers a fully air-gapped deployment, with no data ever leaving your environment, for institutions whose policies or examiners require it. Alloy, which handles data for hundreds of financial institutions, runs Teleskope self-hosted specifically to meet its own data residency and third-party risk requirements. Teleskope's engineering team worked directly with Alloy's security team to apply their specific controls during rollout.

Teleskope ingests the retention and access policies you already have, whether they come from your GLBA Safeguards Rule program, your NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 cybersecurity program, PCI-DSS requirements for cardholder data, SOX financial-reporting controls, FFIEC guidance, BSA/AML and KYC recordkeeping obligations, FINRA rules for broker-dealers, or CFPB requirements, and enforces them automatically. Every classification and remediation action is logged with what was found, why it was flagged, what action was taken, and under which policy, the evidence your examiners and auditors ask for.

No. Teleskope enforces the retention schedule you define, it doesn't delete on its own judgment. Data that hasn't cleared its required retention window under GLBA, FFIEC, or SOX is left alone. Data that has cleared it moves to quarantine first, with a recovery window, before permanent deletion. Nothing is deleted without a policy that authorizes it.

This is where pattern-matching tools tend to fail. Teleskope's classification engine understands business context and document type, not just field names, so it works in customized Salesforce environments, homegrown loan origination systems, and non-standard database architectures where signature-based tools miss what matters.

Every action is reversible and logged. If access is revoked or a file is quarantined incorrectly, it can be restored immediately, and the audit trail shows exactly what happened, why, and under which policy, the same standard examiners expect for any automated decision.