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Financial Services Publication and Leading Database Magazine Validate Guardium With Back-to-Back Technology Awards

Posted on: Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 12:13 CDT

Guardium, the database security company, has won two technology awards from industry-leading publications for its real-time database security and monitoring solution.

Bank Technology News named Guardium one of 10 technology companies to watch -- stating the company is "in the right place at the right time with the right partners" -- while SQL Server Magazine honored Guardium with a 2007 Editor's Choice Award in the "Auditing and Compliance" category. This marks the second year in a row that Guardium has received an Editor's Choice Award from the magazine, having been recognized in the "Security" category during 2006.

Bank Technology News Highlights Innovation

Bank Technology News, the leading source for financial services technology coverage, highlights the top 10 technology companies to watch in this month's issue, and recognized Guardium as one of the "forward-thinking technology companies" that's helping banks meet their challenges with "intelligent and creative tools" and "whose innovation is getting them noticed." Past winners of this prestigious award have included Oracle and RSA, The Security Division of EMC.

The article notes that ING Investment Management is one of Guardium's customers and Cisco one of its investors, while also citing Guardium's "top talent, led by chief technology officer Ron Ben-Natan, who's developed apps for J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch, [AT&T Bell Laboratories] and Intel."

In describing the company's technology, the article says that Guardium's "Linux-based security software resides on [a] hardened appliance plugged into the client's network, and all it does is analyze database traffic-very, very closely. Given that financial databases contain millions of records and are sometimes sprawling, multi-national affairs, it's a lot of traffic to watch ... Guardium monitors it all, as it is generally looking for the actions of privileged insiders rather than perimeter breaches" while noting that "changes to the database don't have to be done with malicious intent in order to compromise information, and in any case compliance with regulatory regimes such as SOX and PCI demand it."

SQL Server Magazine Recognizes Exceptional Products That Deliver Competitive Advantage

SQL Server Magazine's annual Editors' Choice Awards recognize superior products in the market based on strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage, and the value they deliver to customers.

The article describes Guardium's Data Privacy Accelerator as providing "auditing with an eye toward protecting sensitive data against theft, including data breaches by privileged users" with "a set of policies, real-time alerts, and audit reports to detail suspicious database activity" that give "organizations an edge on not only preventing data breaches, but also on stopping them in real time."

The product works by "generat[ing] alerts when access to a data element deviates from an expected pattern (e.g., an unusually high volume of requests for data in a privacy set or access outside of regular business hours) as well as an audit trail of such transactions."

"These back-to-back wins demonstrate a growing recognition that reducing risk around the integrity and privacy of corporate data is now achievable with practical and cost-effective technology," said Phil Neray, vice-president of marketing at Guardium. "Our mission is to continue providing customers with the absolute simplest way to protect enterprise data -- and pass their audits -- while reducing operational costs via automation and centralization of their compliance processes."

About Guardium's Technology

Unlike traditional database logging solutions, Guardium's solution creates a continuous audit trail of all database activities -- including privileged user activities -- without impacting performance or requiring changes to databases or applications.

The system leverages real-time policies and continuous comparisons to baselines of normal activity to immediately identify both internal and external threats. In addition, it allows organizations to enhance IT efficiency by automating compliance oversight processes -- across all major database and OS platforms -- for regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and data privacy laws.

About Guardium

Guardium, the database security company, develops the most widely-used solution for database activity monitoring, security and auditing, with a blue-chip customer base that spans all major geographies and industries. Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a practical, appliance-based platform that both protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process.

Guardium's investors include Cisco Systems and leading venture capital firms. The company has partnerships with IBM, EMC, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sybase, and is a member of IBM's prestigious Data Governance Council.

Source: Business Wire

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