Guardium Launches Database Security Solutions
Tuesday, 21 December 2004Guardium, Inc., a leading provider of database security solutions, today extended its SQL Guard(TM) platform with market-leading solutions that accelerate and simplify critical compliance initiatives. The company's new database access auditing reports and assessment tests enable organizations to automate IT governance requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Graham-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA).
In a related announcement today, Guardium also introduced its breakthrough SQL Guard Database Firewall, which allows organizations, for the first time, to baseline all database access activities and apply policy-based database access control. Together with the reports and tests, Guardium's new solutions dramatically streamline critical corporate compliance initiatives and provide a much-needed layer of security for safeguarding enterprise databases.
"SOX and GLBA are driving the imperative to secure corporate databases. To accomplish this, companies need ongoing visibility into and control over database access," said Ram Metser, CEO, Guardium. "Today's announcements provide the total visibility and control required, and reflect Guardium's ongoing commitment to providing customers with the most innovative solutions for protecting enterprise database infrastructures."
Compliance-Specific Auditing and Assessment: Real-Time Visibility to Database Access
Guardium's new library of compliance-specific reports and tests provide immediate audit trails into database access and on going "report cards" for compliance health. Additionally, these new capabilities have been integrated with Guardium's SQL Guard Security Suite(TM) to automate database audit and assessment tasks in line with SOX and GLBA compliance criteria including:
-- After Hours Usage: Access activities that are attempted after normal business hours in order to pre-empt any potential intrusive access activities.
-- Schema Changes: DDL commands to the database that can affect the integrity of critical databases.
-- Source Applications Access: Both authorized (e.g., ERP) and unauthorized applications (e.g., Excel) that access and modify records in corporate databases.
-- Repeated Unsuccessful Logins: Real time and continuous auditing of this intrusive activity without degrading database performance.
-- Single User-Single IP Address Logins: Access activities that identify which users are utilizing more than one IP address for each application.
Database Firewall: Unprecedented Access Control for Compliance
Guardium's new G3000 Database Firewall provides comprehensive database access control critical for assuring regulatory compliance. Now companies can effectively monitor, alert and prevent the intentional or inadvertent tampering of sensitive financial information with one database security platform. For more information, please refer to the press release: "Guardium Announces Breakthrough Database Firewall."
"Database activity monitoring and auditing is one of the most promising new categories of data security, and one with particular appeal to internal and external auditors concerned with regulatory compliance initiatives," said Rich Mogull, Research Director for Information Security and Risk practice at Gartner. Additionally, companies should look to database independent systems that promise segregation of duties and minimal impact on database performance and deployment."
Three-Step Path to Compliance
With Guardium's new compliance-specific reports and tests and its database firewall, the company is enabling a simple, effective three-step path for compliance, which includes:
-- Visibility: SQL Guard compliance-specific auditing reports and continuous assessment tests provide automated, instant visibility to the critical attributes that affect SOX and GLBA compliance.
-- Detection: Guardium's SQL PolicyGuard application (part of the SQL Guard Security Suite) builds access rules based upon automatic baselining. This process delivers precise policy-based alerting that is divergent from best practice access policies.
-- Prevention: The SQL Guard Database Firewall coupled with SQL PolicyGuard enable precise prevention of intrusive access activities.
Guardium's new compliance capabilities build on the SQL Guard database security platform - a network-based solution with unique advantages: Zero-impact auditing does not degrade database or application performance; Segregation of duties assures data integrity by supporting organizational best practices; Precise, policy-based detection and protection delivers seamless migration from real time monitoring/alerting to access prevention; and No-risk implementation with database independence mitigates any implementation risks.
Pricing and Availability
Guardium's library of SOX/GLBA reports/tests is newly packaged in the SQL Guard Compliance Foundation (TM), which also includes the SQL Guard Security Suite applications and SQL Guard platform. The Compliance Foundation is priced at $31,995 and will be available January 2005.
Bedsole & Company
Janice Bedsole or Marcia Goff
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Source: Business Wire
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