IBM Security Guardium Data Protection – an incredible solution for Database Activity Monitoring
IBM Security Guardium Data Protection – an incredible solution for Database Activity Monitoring
Databases often contain sensitive and confidential information that should not be accessed nor modified by unauthorized individuals, which making it a prime target for cyberattacks. Although, there are many solutions such as data encryption, access control, regular database security audits are in place. Creating and maintaining a high database performance is critical, helped organizations to identify and solve any database issues that impact business and its reputation.
IBM offers a full-scale data protection tool and platform – IBM Security Guardium – which cover capabilities of:
Data activity monitoring
Encryption & tokenization
Data security optimization and risk analysis
The Guardium data protection tool not only helps monitor all DB activities and detect unusual happenings across on-premises and cloud environments, but also discovers sensitive data using pre-built patterns for compliance and privacy regulations such as PCI, PII, GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA and proactively discovers risks and data assets before they get exploited.
Flexible connections to your data sources, including:
S-TAP
Agent-based for real-time monitoring of on-premises data sources
E-TAP
Agent-based, proxy solution for real-time monitoring of cloud data sources
Universal Connectors
Agentless passive monitoring for cloud and on-premises data sources
Streaming APIs
Agentless passive monitoring for cloud data sources
User Friendly UI
IBM Security Guardium is easy to audit the activities of every user who accessing the cloud. Also, it provides insight into the document or file contents and usage patterns. It also discovers the sensitive data in the data warehouse.