IBM® Security Guardium is a comprehensive data security platform that provides a full range of capabilities – from discovery and classification of sensitive data to vulnerability assessment to data and file activity monitoring to masking, encryption, blocking, alerting and quarantining to protect sensitive data.

Guardium helps secure sensitive data across a full range of environments – from databases to big data, cloud, file systems and more. Guardium also provides automated analysis to quickly uncover internal and external risks to sensitive data. The solution also easily adapts to changes in your IT environment – whether that includes adding new users, requiring more scalability, or adding new technologies.

IBM Security Guardium helps clients support a full range of use cases – compliance initiatives, privacy initiatives, big data security projects, and projects to outthink insiders all the way through comprehensive data protection.

IBM Security Guardium helps:

Analyze your data risk:

  • Discover and classify sensitive data – and uncover compliance risks – automatically
  • Know who is accessing data, spot anomalies, and stop data loss with data activity monitoring across files, databases, Hadoop distributions, NoSQL platforms, and more
  • Analyze data usage patterns to rapidly uncover and remediate risks with advanced, automated analytics and machine learning such as outlier detection
  • A Threat Diagnostic Center scans and analyzes audited data to detect symptoms that may indicate a database attack underway – from the inside or from the outside – such as detecting SQL injections and malicious stored procedures
  • A dynamic Data Protection Dashboard centralizes key indicators of data and data repository risk mitigation and compliance progress for key stakeholders, so they can see the data security heartbeat of the organization and act appropriately.

Protect your critical data:

  • Shield the business from liability with automated data compliance and extensive audit capabilities for data at rest and data in motion
  • Protect critical data through encryption, masking, redaction, and dynamic blocking and alerting
  • Alert or block elicit internal & external data and file access with real-time response, including identifying abnormal or suspicious behavior..

Seamlessly adapt your data security to changes in your environment

  • Support traditional and new data technologies - such as Hadoop, noSQL and Cloud
  • Support your entire data protection journey – from compliance to end-to-end data protection with the same infrastructure and approach
  • Reduce costs and improve results using a single data protection infrastructure for your entire environment

Related solutions

IBM Security Guardium is available to support different use cases. For example:

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection for Databases

IBM Security Guardium Express Data Protection for Databases

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection for Files

IBM Security Guardium Vulnerability Assessment

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IBM® Security Guardium® is designed to safeguard critical data, wherever it resides. This comprehensive data protection platform empowers security teams to automatically analyze what is happening across the data environment to help minimize risk, protect sensitive data from internal and external threats, and seamlessly adapt to changes that affect data security.

IBM Security solutions for data security and protection include:

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection for Databases

Provides monitoring, threat detection analytics and protection for sensitive data in databases.

IBM Security Guardium Express Data Protection for Databases

Entry level solution that helps automate compliance, monitoring and auditing databases.

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection for Files

Provides monitoring, threat detection analytics and protection for sensitive data in files and file systems.

IBM Security Guardium Vulnerability Assessment

Scan and detect vulnerabilities on a scheduled basis.

IBM Security Guardium Data Activity Monitor

Monitor access to databases and automate compliance controls.

IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption

Encrypt and decrypt sensitive structured and unstructured data and comply with industry and regulatory requirements.

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Customer Case Studies

 

Infographics, Demos and Videos

  • Morneau Shepell: Secure Sensitive Data

     

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  • Security starts from within: How to protect sensitive data against internal and external threats

     

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  • Common customer trends for data security and protection

     

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  • IBM Security Guardium: Analyze, Protect, Adapt

     

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  • The Forrester Total Economic Impact for IBM Security Guardium

     

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  • Westfield Insurance: Protecting business data

     

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  • Progressive Insurance: Proactively Protecting Data by Creating Appropriate Controls

     

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  • MyEyeDr: Protection against Insider Threats

     

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Webcasts and Podcasts

 
 
 

Solution Briefs, Whitepapers, and eBooks

  • Protecting Against Database Attacks and Insider Threats

     

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  • Four steps to a proactive big data security and privacy strategy

     

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  • Top tips for securing big data environments. Why big data doesn’t have to mean big security challenges

     

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Analyst Reports

The Future Of Data Security And Privacy

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Big Data Security Strategies for Hadoop Enterprise Data Lakes

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  • The Total Economic Impact of IBM Security Guardium

     

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  • Analyst Research: IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Quarterly – 4Q 2015

    Learn the value of preparedness to combat the latest threats

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  • IBM Security Guardium Benefit Estimator

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