Guardium Hosts Data Security and Governance Seminar Featuring Leading Information Security Analyst and Industry Expert.Guardium and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Sponsor Wall Street Seminar About Best Practices for Protecting Critical Data, Meeting Auditors' Requirements, and Reducing Compliance Costs WALTHAM, Mass. -- Guardium, the database security company, will host a half-day best practices seminar featuring data security and compliance experts from Gartner, IBM, and Guardium. The complementary November 9th event in New York's Financial District is aimed at CXOs and managers in IT security, auditing, privacy and compliance, data management, and database administration. TechTarget, publisher of Information Security magazine, SearchSecurity.com, and SearchDataManagement.com, is organizing the event. The presenters will discuss industry best practices for securing sensitive corporate data such as financial, customer, and employee information as well as meeting auditors' requirements for mandates including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub. L. No. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338 (November 12, 1999), is an Act of the United States Congress which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, opening up competition (GLBA GLBA Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (Financial Modernization Act of 1999) GLBA Gay and Lesbian Business Association GLBA Great Lakes Booksellers Association GLBA Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve ), state data privacy laws, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when (HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, ). Strategies for simplifying and reducing the cost of compliance via automation, standardization, and a risk-oriented approach will also be discussed, as well as real-world ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). case studies. The featured Gartner speaker, Paul Proctor Paul Proctor is an editorial columnist who identifies himself as a "rural resident of the Volunteer State" residing somewhere near Nashville, Tennessee. His columns, under the heading "Biblically Speaking", are published at NewsWithViews. , Research Vice-President, is a recognized expert in information security and associated regulatory compliance issues. At Gartner, Proctor advises the world's largest public- and private-sector enterprises on how to mitigate risks associated with information security. He was the founder and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of two security technology companies, developed both first- and second-generation, host-based intrusion-detection technologies, and has written two Prentice Hall Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher education market. History In 1913, law professor Dr. books on information security. IBM's Brett W. Gow leads the Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. practice for the Data Governance Center of Excellence in IBM Global Business Services. Bringing more than 20 years of experience, Gow will describe how companies can benchmark against their peers and measure ongoing progress regarding data governance maturity. Guardium's CTO, Ron Ben-Natan, Ph.D., has 20+ years of experience and is the author of nine technical books on distributed application environments, application security and database security, including the definitive guide, "Implementing Database Security and Auditing." Ben-Natan, an IBM Gold consultant, has previously worked for companies such as Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Intel. The seminar will describe strategies and tactics regarding: * Protecting sensitive information within your data center * Common characteristics of all regulatory requirements and controls * Leveraging automation and standardization to reduce complexity and compliance costs * Taking a risk-oriented approach to controls * Negotiating with auditors * Database activity monitoring and auditing solutions * The challenges of implementing field-level database encryption * The five levels of Data Governance Maturity * Data security and auditing implications of next-generation Service Oriented Architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) environments In addition, Guardium's CTO will discuss: * The seven essential elements of database security and auditing * Non-invasive, network-resident technologies for real-time database activity monitoring * Monitoring privileged users and enforcing separation of duties for SOX * Implementing change controls for critical databases * Automating database auditing, reporting, and oversight processes * Correlating database activity to application users for multi-tier applications (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, etc.) * Limitations of traditional database-resident tools (e.g., native logging)
WHAT: Seminar: "Best Practices for Data Security & Governance"
WHEN: November 9, 2006, 9AM - 12PM
WHERE: New York Marriott Financial Center Downtown, New York, N.Y.
WHO: Paul Proctor, Research Vice-President, Gartner
Brett Gow, IBM Data Governance Center of Excellence
Ron Ben-Natan, CTO, Guardium
WHO SHOULD
ATTEND: CXOs, executives and day-to-day practitioners involved
with IT auditing, governance, compliance, privacy and risk
management, and security and database administration
WHERE: Register at: www.guardium.com
WHY: Learn to safeguard critical information while efficiently
complying with multiple federal, state and industry
mandates
About Guardium Guardium, the database security company, develops the most widely-used network solution for database activity monitoring. By securing sensitive corporate information such as financial, customer, and employee data in real-time - and automating change controls and compliance reporting - Guardium protects the world's best-known brands while reducing the cost of IT governance and compliance. Customers include: a top five U.S. bank; a top ten European financial services institution; a global consumer products manufacturer with over 100,000 employees; one of the largest North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. oil and gas companies; and other companies worldwide in financial services, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, and government. Guardium's investors include Cisco Systems and leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] . The company has partnerships with IBM, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , HP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sybase and is a member of the Data Governance Council. Named "Hot Pick" by Information Security magazine, Guardium's family of network appliances continuously monitors and prevents unauthorized access to databases. Guardium's patent-pending technology performs deep packet inspection Analyzing network traffic to discover the type of application that sent the data. In order to prioritize traffic or filter out unwanted data, deep packet inspection can differentiate data, such as video, audio, chat, voice over IP (VoIP), e-mail and Web. on all network traffic and detailed SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. linguistic analysis to detect or block specific commands based on policies. Unlike traditional log-based or DBMS-resident approaches, Guardium's technology provides continuous fine-grained database monitoring without impacting the performance or stability of key production applications, while supporting the separation of duties required by auditors. The Guardium software suite includes specialized modules for SOX, PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , Basel II, and data privacy laws. A centralized multi-tier architecture provides scalability for large and distributed enterprises. For more information, please visit www.guardium.com or call 781-487-9400. Copyright [c] 2006 Guardium. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Guardium, SQL Guard, and Safeguarding Databases are trademarks of Guardium, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective companies. Copying and redistribution of this material is expressly permitted by the copyright owner. |
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