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Guardium Expands SQL Guard Enterprise Security Family
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Staff Writer
2005-05-16
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Guardium expanded its SQL Guard enterprise security family with SQL RemoteGuard, a non-intrusive software monitoring probe that makes it easy to protect databases in departmental and remote, distributed sites.
SQL RemoteGuard is a synergistic and seamless extension of SQL Guard, delivering unprecedented visibility, auditing and monitoring of remote database access activities. With this new product, Guardium continues to lead the industry with the most complete suite of solutions for database access monitoring, access control, auditing and compliance, regardless of database location.
"SQL RemoteGuard extends the power of SQL Guard's database security and continuous auditing to remote sites," said Ram Metser, president and CEO of Guardium. "As regulatory compliance and IT governance initiatives continue to be at the forefront, it is increasingly imperative that companies audit and protect databases throughout their entire organizations. They now have a seamless, cost-effective way to safeguard practically any database in the enterprise."
SQL RemoteGuard: Database Security for Remote Datacenters
Guardium's new SQL RemoteGuard is a lightweight, software-based module that provides continuous, real-time monitoring and auditing of remote database access activities. Unlike intrusive software agents that can impact database performance, SQL RemoteGuard is non-intrusive to the database and does not degrade database performance. SQL RemoteGuard monitors all remote database activity and leverages a central SQL Guard server for CPU-intensive analysis and key database applications such as the SQL Guard Security Suite and Compliance Accelerator. This unique architectural approach delivers powerful features that include:
-- Zero impact, non-intrusive monitoring and auditing of remote database activity
-- Cost effective database security for distributed sites
-- Separation of duties required for security operations (no ongoing database system privileges are required)
-- Transparent, multi-database and OS vendor support for IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and Sybase and for Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP and Windows
-- Easy to deploy and maintain with a single user information/management interface and no database skills required for enterprise-wide deployments
"There are benefits to both appliance and software-based approaches for database security. Appliances offer a turn-key solution that offers significantly lower cost of ownership while software-based solutions offer cost effective flexibility for deployment to branches and regional offices," said Andreas Antonopolous, director at Nemertes Research. "Nemertes Research recommends that IT executives seek security solutions from vendors offering both deployment forms, allowing maximum flexibility without costly cross-vendor integration."
SQL Guard Database Security Platform
SQL Guard is the industry's first non-intrusive, network-based database security platform that deters unauthorized access to critical data residing in corporate relational databases. With unprecedented continuous, real-time visibility into all access to databases, SQL Guard enables organizations to gain precise knowledge about the who, what, when and how of activity between all internal/external users and distributed relational databases. In addition, Guardium's SQL Guard platform provides task oriented applications such as its SQL Guard Security Suite and Compliance Accelerator to enable, simplify and automate database security and auditing functions. These unique capabilities allow SQL Guard to effectively tackle critical enterprise security challenges that include database access control and enforcement, database auditing tasks and regulatory compliance initiatives.
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