SQL Guard Data Access Security Appliance Portland OR

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Originally published at Internet.com

Database security vendor Guardium's SQL Guard is a network-based data access security appliance focused on deterring unauthorized access to critical data residing in corporate relational databases.

The product provides visibility into the activity of all internal and external users of distributed, relational databases. The product's application functionality extends from database access security to access policy, intrusion detection, compliance reporting, auditing and data transaction archiving and analysis.

The SQL Guard appliance is positioned outside the database and does not degrade network, application or database performance by siphoning off CPU cycles from servers, or introducing latency into database queries.

The product supports a range of SQL dialects, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase SQL Server, concurrently and transparently. SQL Guard abstracts information from those database dialects into a single set of semantics, allowing administrators to view a single set of reports and policies.

"Databases are the most important IT asset that an organization has," says Nathan Kalowski, EVP of marketing for Guardium. "If the database goes away, the business goes away. But database administrators tend to be blind to who is touching what objects in the database. So the first step is usually data security visibility, understanding all the activities happening around the database."

The core ingredient of SQL Guard is SQL CAP (Content and Context-Aware Parsing engine), a patent pending technology. SQL CAP provides precise inspection, parsing and analysis of the communications stream to the database. It is aware of the content and context of each database request.

The product comes with pre-packaged reports and monitors, alerts with companion detail, and structured logs for archiving and analysis.

SQL Guard is offered in three models, from the G100 priced at $12,9995, for a single LAN, to the G5000 priced at $24,995, an aggregation server that consolidates multiple SQL Guard