Guardium to Exhibit and Present at Information Security Decisions; SQL Guard Advanced Database Security Solutions Automate Database Security, Auditing, Compliance, and Identity Theft Prevention

Business Wire, May 9, 2005

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Guardium, Inc., a leading provider of database security solutions, this week will showcase its comprehensive SQL Guard(TM) platform at the Information Security Decisions conference, May 9-11, 2005, The Hilton Chicago, Booth #607. SQL Guard is a network-based platform that fills key security gaps by delivering unprecedented policy-based control of intrusive access to critical enterprise databases. SQL Guard solutions automate and simplify database security, auditing, compliance (for Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA and others) and identity theft prevention.

Additionally, Guardium's David Valovcin, vice president of sales, will present in the Emerging Technologies showcase at the conference on May 9 at 3:25PM CST.

"We continue on our rapid growth path this year," said Ram Metser, president and CEO of Guardium. "The mandate to protect critical corporate and customer information in databases is driving our business. With SQL Guard, we give enterprises the actionable knowledge required to identify and expose all database access anomalies as well as control and prevent intrusive access and the tools to improve overall security of all enterprise-wide databases."

SQL Guard sits strategically in front of the database and continuously monitors all access activities by continuously extracting information from the network, applications and SQL/database layers within the communications stream. This database-independent approach offers exceptional advantages such as the abilities to separate duties; allow for zero impact auditing; and transparently support multi-vendor databases.

Guardium solutions being showcased at Information Security Decisions include:

--SQL Guard Database Security Platform: Provides unprecedented protection of distributed, enterprise-wide data in IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and Sybase environments. By providing continuous, real-time visibility into all network-based database access, SQL Guard enables organizations to gain precise knowledge and control about the who, what, when and how of activity between all internal/external users and corporate databases. SQL Guard simplifies database security operations by reducing the need for database technical skills as well as the need to analyze volumes of database logs.

--SQL Guard Security Suite(TM): An integrated set of applications (SQL HealthGuard(TM), SQL PolicyGuard(TM) and SQL AuditGuard(TM)) that automates auditing, health assessment and access control for continuous protection of relational databases.

--SQL Guard Compliance Accelerator(TM): A library of IT governance (SOX/GLBA) reports/tests that is packaged with the SQL Guard Security Suite applications and SQL Guard platform to automate, accelerate and simplify database security operations for regulatory compliance initiatives.

--SQL Guard Database Firewall: A breakthrough firewall that extends Guardium's database security platform by delivering the industry's first SQL-level, policy-based database firewall. With this solution, companies can obtain database access auditing, detection, and prevention capabilities with a single platform.

About Guardium

Headquartered in Waltham, MA, Guardium (www.guardium.com) develops and delivers innovative database security solutions that remove complexity, and provide visibility and effective controls over database access activities of IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Sybase environments. Guardium's family of non-intrusive, robust applications addresses key database security concerns that include database security assessment, access policy control and enforcement, auditing, and regulatory compliance. Guardium's growing customer base includes some of the world's most technically advanced organizations representing a wide range of industries. Financial services, telecommunications, media, manufacturing, healthcare, and government organizations trust Guardium's solutions to protect their mission critical data and handle their compliance challenges. Guardium investors include the Cedar Fund, Veritas Venture Partners, and StageOne Ventures.

Guardium, SQL Guard, SQL Guard Security Suite, SQL HealthGuard, SQL AuditGuard, SQL PolicyGuard, SQL RemoteGuard and "Safeguarding Databases" are trademarks of Guardium, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective companies.