Simplify compliance, security and change control
Guardium solutions allow organisations to rapidly meet their auditors requirements and reduce compliance costs, while protecting critical enterprise data and enforcing change controls - without impacting applications, databases, or networks.
Delivering the most widely-used solution for database activity monitoring, security and auditing, Guardium's customers include some of the world's best-known brands and government institutions.
Guardium has achieved this market share leadership by delivering a practical, appliance-based platform that uniquely combines real-time database security and continuous fine-grained auditing (logging) with compliance workflow automation.
In addition, their scalable enterprise architecture dramatically simplifies data governance by automating and centralising controls across all data centers, database platforms, and compliance initiatives (SOX, PCI, data privacy, Basel II, etc.).
Monitor non-invasively
Traditional database-resident logging solutions are notorious for degrading the performance and stability of production systems. They also require cumbersome and error-prone changes to databases. This can be especially painful in heterogeneous environments, since each database platform requires different configuration changes.
In comparison, Guardium's architecture is network-based and database-independent. It works by continuously monitoring and analysing all database traffic - including both network and local traffic from privileged users-- for suspicious or unauthorised activities, without relying on database trace or transaction logs.
This non-invasive approach provides 100% visibility into all database activities without impacting performance or requiring changes to databases or applications.
Also unlike database-resident solutions, Guardium's solution stores all audit data in a secure, standalone and tamper-proof repository that cannot be modified by privileged users - thereby supporting separation of duties, as required by auditors.
Guardium provides a scalable, multi-tier architecture with centralised policy management and automated aggregation of audit data, for enterprise-wide compliance reporting, incident management and forensics. The system captures 100% of all database activity via SPAN ports, network TAPs or lightweight. host-resident software probes - or a custom combination that best fits your environment, for optimal deployment flexibility.
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