Guardium Partners with NEON Enterprise Software to Extend Industry-Leading Database Security and Monitoring Technology to Mainframe Environments

Business Wire, Oct 9, 2007

* Z2000, a high-performance, Linux-based appliance developed by Guardium for efficient, off-mainframe analysis and storage of massive amounts of mainframe audit data. The appliance provides sufficient self-contained capacity for online storage of up to 2-4 billion database transactions, as well as an integrated interface to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), EMC Centera and other systems for periodic archiving of audit data in encrypted format.

* The Guardium Security Suite, an integrated family of intuitive, Web-based security and compliance monitoring applications that run on the appliance itself. The suite has continually been refined over the past five years based on ongoing feedback from Big 4 auditors and blue-chip Global 1000 customers worldwide. For example, it includes applications for defining granular access policies, creating baselines to rapidly identify anomalous behavior and common attacks such as SQL injection, correlating unauthorized activities and policy violations, automating compliance reporting and oversight workflows, tracking and managing incidents, and forensic analysis.

* Guardium Enterprise Manager, which provides centralized, cross-platform management of database security policies and a single enterprise-wide view and repository of database audit data - aggregated and normalized across heterogeneous DBMS platforms. With Enterprise Manager and Guardium's multi-tier architecture, customers can easily scale up to meet the most demanding environments, simply by adding appliances that automatically work together in a federated model, even across multiple data center locations and mixed mainframe and open systems environments.

For UNIX, Linux and Windows, Guardium supports all major DBMS platforms - including IBM DB2 and Informix, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase ASE and IQ - with its family of S-TAP[TM] monitoring probes and G2000 appliances. Guardium Enterprise Manager allows customers to easily combine these with Z-TAPs and Z2000 appliances in a single unified solution for heterogeneous environments.

"A large percentage of mission-critical enterprise data resides on mainframes and organizations need an easy way to secure and audit their mainframes without impacting business processes or requiring database changes," said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "In addition, since virtually all organizations with mainframe environments also have distributed systems, it is critical to reduce costs and complexity with comprehensive solutions that address both mainframe and non-mainframe requirements."

Availability and Pricing

Guardium for Mainframes will be available to pre-release customers in 90-120 days. The solution will be previewed at the IBM Information on Demand Conference in Las Vegas (Mandalay Bay Convention Center, October 15-17), in Guardium's booth (#914) and NEON Enterprise Software's booth (#D7). In addition, Guardium's CTO, Ron Ben-Natan, Ph.D., and NEON's Corporate Technologist, Craig S. Mullins, will be delivering technical presentations about the joint solution during the IBM conference. Please contact Guardium for pricing information.