InfoSphere Guardium Activity Monitor

Complete visibility into all data activity

• Gives you complete visibility into all transactions for all platforms and protocols by users including database administrators, developers and outsourced personnel and applications.
• Identifies application users who make unauthorized changes from a common service account such as Oracle E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft Enterprise.
• Provides user and application access monitoring independent of native database logging and audit functions.
• Improves data security by detecting unusual database read and update activity from the application layer.
• Automates sensitive data discovery and classification.

Monitoring and policy enforcement

• Monitors and enforces policies for sensitive data access, privileged user actions, change control, application user activities and security exceptions.
• Uses access policies to identify anomalous behavior by comparing data activity to a normal behavior baseline.
• Supports exception policies based on definable thresholds such as SQL errors.
• Uses extrusion policies to examine data leaving the database for specific value patterns such as credit card numbers.
• Supports policy-based actions such as near real time security alerts, software blocking and user quarantines.

Centralized aggregation of audit data

• Aggregates data throughout your enterprise for compliance auditing and reporting, correlation and forensics without enabling native database audit functions.
• Provides a tamper-proof audit trail that supports the separation of duties required by auditors.
• Delivers customizable compliance workflow automation to generate compliance reports and distribute them to oversight teams for electronic sign-offs and escalation.

Broad heterogeneous support

• Monitors and audits Hadoop-based systems such as IBM InfoSphere BigInsights™ and Cloudera.
• Supports enterprise databases and operating systems including IBM DB2®, Teradata, IBM Netezza®, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, UNIX and Linux.
• Supports key enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management applications as well as custom and packaged applications.
• Provides capabilities to track file-sharing activities on major platforms including Microsoft SharePoint.
• Discovers and classifies sensitive enterprise data for all platforms and protocols.