Guardium – Real-Time Database Protection and Compliance

Guardium provides the simplest, most robust solution for safeguarding your entire application and database infrastructure, including:

Real-time database activity monitoring (DAM) for proactively identifying unauthorized or suspicious activities
Auditing and compliance solutions for simplifying SOX, PCI-DSS, and data privacy processes
Change control solutions for preventing unauthorized changes to database structures, data values, privileges, and configurations
Vulnerability management solutions for identifying and resolving vulnerabilities
Database leak prevention for locating sensitive data and thwarting data center breaches

Database Activity Monitoring

Real-Time Prevention, Without Impacting Your Business
Guardium’s real-time monitoring technology uses both policy-based controls and anomaly detection to prevent unauthorized activities by potential hackers, privileged insiders, and end-users of enterprise applications such as Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, and SAP.

Auditing & Compliance

Rapidly Meet Auditors’ Requirements with Automated Controls
Some organizations believe that reviewing their logs from time to time will be sufficient to pass their audit. But auditors are interested in three things that can’t be fully addressed by traditional logging solutions. They want you to monitor all database access and prove compliance; they want to know that you’re actually protecting your data with proactive controls; and they want to see that you’ve implemented a formal oversight process.

Change Control

Tighten Change Controls & Increase Staff Efficiency
Most organizations have formal change control policies and processes that govern how and when changes are made to production databases. Until now, however, your IT team may not have had effective tools for detecting when critical changes are made outside of your change control policies and processes.

Vulnerability Management

The Complexity Challenge
A core responsibility of the IT security organization is to protect the business from internal and external threats. But the threat environment is constantly changing—and enterprise application and database environments are particularly challenging to secure because their functionality and complexity are constantly increasing.

Database Leak Prevention

Address Data Leakage at the Core
Most information leaks, even those that occur via stolen laptops or emailing sensitive information, originate with unauthorized or unusual queries to critical databases. Many organizations have formal access policies that govern how and when sensitive data is accessed, but lack practical solutions for detecting or blocking activities that fall outside these policies.

Mainframe Visibility

100% Visibility into All Mainframe Database Activity

Tracking the details of who is accessing data and what is done with the data is now required for compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). IBM Guardium for z/OS is the only database auditing solution that provides 100% visibility into mainframe database activity without impacting business processes.