IBM InfoSphere Guardium

InfoSphere Guardium allows organizations to simplify security and compliance regulations with a single set of automated and centralized controls for a broad range of enterprise databases and applications. In addition to its automated monitoring capabilities, Guardium also helps clients more easily meet compliance mandates by delivering stronger information governance controls to ensure the privacy and integrity of corporate data while simplifying audits. These capabilities will also help lower compliance costs across all of an organization's high-value data sources.

This, and furthermore preventing unauthorized activities by privileged insiders or hackers while monitoring end-users to identify fraud, Guardium does without any changes to databases, applications or impacting performance.

Product highlights

• 100% visibility into all database transactions - across all platforms and protocols - including those of DBA's, developers and outsourced personnel.


• Monitoring and policy enforcement for sensitive data access, privileged user actions, change control, application user activities and security exceptions.


• Centralized aggregation and normalization of audit data from across your database infrastructure for enterprise-wide compliance auditing and reporting, correlation, and forensics.


• A secure, tamper-proof audit trail that supports the separation of duties (SOD) required by auditors.


• Integrated Compliance Workflow Automation, including report distribution to oversight teams, electronic sign-offs and escalations.


• The broadest heterogeneous support, including database platforms from eight vendors on all major operating systems.


• Capabilities to track file sharing activities on major platforms, including Microsoft SharePoint.