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What is IBM Security Guardium? What does it Guard?

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Category: Cybersecurity PRISM
IBM Security Guardium is designed to help safeguard critical data.
 
It automatically discovers and classifies 'sensitive data' from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.
 
 
 
 
Guardium is a comprehensive data protection platform that enables security teams to automatically analyze what is happening in sensitive-data environments (databases, data warehouses, big data platforms, cloud environments, files systems, and so on) to help minimize risk, protect sensitive data from internal and external threats, and seamlessly adapt to IT changes that may impact data security.
 
Guardium helps ensure the integrity of information in data centers and automate compliance controls. You can use pre-built templates for regulations such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, CCPA and many more, to streamline and automate compliance workflows.

The IBM Security Guardium solution is offered in two versions:

  1. IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)
  2. IBM Security Guardium File Activity Monitoring (FAM) - Use Guardium file activity monitoring to extend monitoring capabilities to file servers.

Guardium products can help you:

  • Automatically locate databases and discover and classify sensitive information within them;
  • Automatically assess database vulnerabilities and configuration flaws;
  • Ensure that configurations are locked down after recommended changes are implemented;
  • Enable high visibility at a granular level into database transactions that involve sensitive data;
  • Track activities of end users who access data indirectly through enterprise applications;
  • Monitor and enforce a wide range of policies, including sensitive data access, database change control, and privileged user actions;
  • Create a single, secure centralized audit repository for large numbers of heterogeneous systems and databases; and
  • Automate the entire compliance auditing process, including creating and distributing reports as well as capturing comments and signatures.
This solution is available as pre-configured appliances shipped by IBM® or as software appliances installed on your platform. Optional features can easily be added to your system after installation.
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