Guardium Recognized as "A Leader Across the Board" in Enterprise Database Auditing and Real-Time Protection Market by Independent Research Firm

To assess product strength, Forrester evaluated each offering against ten groups of criteria through a combination of lab evaluations, questionnaires, demos, and discussions with client references. Forrester awarded Guardium the #1 score for Architecture along with perfect scores (5 out of 5) for five other groups of criteria including (1) Performance and scalability; (2) Usability; (3) Levels of auditing; (4) Monitoring and notification (real-time alerting); and (5) Application level support.

In particular, Forrester notes that Guardium offers "extremely good compliance reporting and role separation capabilities" with "out-of-the-box modules for packaged applications like JD Edwards, Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, SAP, and Siebel."

Best-Suited to Enterprise-Wide Auditing Deployments

Concluding that "Guardium is best suited to enterprise-wide auditing deployments," the report observes that "Guardium customers have deployed the company's solution across many databases and data centers." It specifically cites "Guardium's aggregation capability [which] supports the collection and merging of information from multiple Guardium appliances to a single aggregation appliance ... to achieve an enterprise view."

Guardium's centralized architecture allows organizations to aggregate and normalize all of their database audit information - across multiple data center locations, DBMS platforms, and enterprise applications - into a single unified repository, for enterprise-wide compliance reporting, correlation and forensics. Complementing this capability, Guardium also supports centralized security policy management and granular access controls across distributed, heterogeneous environments.

Strong Roadmap Ahead with More Innovation

In the Product Strategy category, Forrester states that Guardium "has a strong road map ahead with more innovation and features." The report also highlights the company's key investors, such as Cisco Systems, and its revenue growth by three times on a year-over-year basis.

Rapid Market Growth

According to the report, "Forrester estimates the value of the database auditing and real-time protection market, which includes new licenses, support, and services, at approximately $450 million, and expects it to double by 2010 as enterprises look to automate and secure even more of their enterprise databases." The report states that "database auditing and real-time protection have become necessities for all ... to meet regulatory compliance requirements and mitigate risk against various types of threats to enterprise databases."

"We're thankful to our large installed base of enterprise customers, who have helped us continuously enhance our technology based on real-world experience in the most demanding data center environments worldwide," said Ram Metser, CEO of Guardium. "We're proud of this recognition by Forrester as a Leader across the board, and we will continue delivering practical and innovative technology that addresses our customers' key strategic and operational objectives."

Major Recognition From Other Independent Organizations

Guardium received major recognition from five other independent organizations in the past few months, including:

* Information Security magazine stated that Guardium's solution "has evolved from an impressive technology to an enterprise-class data security product that should be on every organization's radar."

* InformationWeek concluded that Guardium performed "at the top of the DBEP [database extrusion prevention] class" with "capabilities that stand out from other products we've tested" and a "solid feature set that should please security pros looking to take back control of database security."