Guardium Inc.

Guardium Inc., a database security company, has introduced a new data privacy product that it calls the first database-centric solution for preventing identity theft, including unauthorized access by "trusted" insiders.

The Guardium Data Privacy Accelerator[TM] builds upon the Guardium SQL Guard[TM] platform. Guardium says that customers in a broad range of industries--including financial services, telecommunications, retail, media, energy, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals--use its products to monitor and prevent unauthorized access to their valuable information, which can include credit card and Social Security numbers, as well as corporate financial information. Guardium's family of network appliances supports all leading enterprise databases, anywhere on the network.

The Guardium Data Privacy Accelerator delivers a portfolio of pre-configured policies, real-time alerts and audit reports that are specifically tailored to the challenges of identify theft, based on industry best practices, the company says. For example, the system automatically generates real-time alerts whenever anomalous database activity is detected, such as a high volume of requests for first and last names in combination with credit card or bank account numbers. Requests can also be blocked when sensitive information is accessed in unexpected ways, such as after-hours queries or access from unapproved applications.

An interactive visual access map provides high-level network views of all database users, applications and servers, with zoom-in detail showing exactly which information is being accessed and which database commands are being executed. In almost every company, Guardium says, this initial insight prompts immediate security changes; frequently, employees are unwittingly violating corporate policies or creating security loopholes.

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