Software offers database security and compliance solution.June 7, 2007 -
Supporting all 3 common methods of data collection in single, unified platform, Audit DB v6.0 enables users to mix and match 3 approaches as dictated by IT or regulatory requirements. Database auditing platform features AuditFlex architecture that helps increase scope and completeness of database security and compliance by delivering network-based real-time alerts, application user auditing, privacy reporting module, change-ticket auditing, and workflow system.
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Lumigent Technologies, Inc.
289 Great Road (rt. 2A)
Acton, MA, 01720
USA
Lumigent Introduces Industry's First and Only Database Auditing Platform to Offer Users Complete Choice of Data Collection Methods
ACTON, Mass., May 15 / -- Lumigent Technologies today introduced a new version of its flagship Audit DB product that delivers the "holy grail" of the database auditing world - a database security and compliance system that supports all three common methods of data collection in a single, unified platform. Until today, organizations wishing to monitor and protect their databases had to choose among three different methods of data collection: capturing traffic as it flows across the network, analyzing log files of actual database transactions or relying on the database's native auditing capabilities. With the introduction of Audit DB 6.0 and the AuditFlex(TM) architecture, organizations no longer need to choose one approach over the other and can, for the first time, mix and match the three approaches as dictated by IT or regulatory requirements.
"The introduction of Audit DB 6.0 truly breaks new ground," said Cliff Pollan, CEO of Lumigent. "For the first time, choosing a system to audit and protect corporate databases no longer comes down to a religious battle over which method of data collection is better or which one approach will win out over all others. Instead, Audit DB now gives organizations the freedom to use whichever method is best suited for a particular system or scenario. Need to monitor and protect a real-time financial trading system in a giant brokerage? Use network data collection so that you don't have to touch the production systems in any way. Need to protect the back-end reconciliation systems or back-office applications in the same brokerage? Use log analysis so you have a definitive record of what actually happened to the data in the database and so you needn't worry about issues with privileged users or encrypted network traffic. Audit DB lets you make the choice, with the huge benefit of having the data from the different collection mechanisms unified in a single system, with a single set of policies, alerts and reports."
Audit DB 6.0 leverages Lumigent's new AuditFlex architecture to increase the scope and completeness of database security and compliance by delivering significant new features including network-based real-time alerts, enhanced application user auditing, a new privacy reporting module, change-ticket auditing and a new workflow system. Customers can feel confident that these new capabilities will address any and all issues related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, privacy and PCI compliance, privileged user monitoring, fraud detection and database forensics.
Traditionally known for its best-of-breed log analysis and native auditing technology, Lumigent is the acknowledged industry leader with nearly three times the number of customer deployments as compared to its nearest competitor. With this release of Audit DB however, Lumigent further distances itself from competitors by introducing network capture technology combined with the same technology that has been field-proven over the last seven years in thousands of production systems at some of the world's Wall Street organizations.
Further, unlike other vendors in the space, Lumigent's network capture technology does not require the deployment and ongoing management of hardware appliances. Appliance-based approaches are commonly criticized for introducing additional network management headaches and for locking organizations into costly proprietary hardware that often duplicates capabilities of existing network devices and fails to scale economically across an entire enterprise. Lumigent's software-only approach eliminates all of these issues.
"Different organizations express different needs when it comes to data auditing," said Trent Henry, senior analyst at the Burton Group. "In some cases, they want wider, horizontal visibility provided by network-based tools. In other cases, clients want deeper analysis on target systems themselves. For most enterprises, however, both capabilities are required to fully answer information-protection and compliance requirements. A wider range of choices allows security architects to deploy the appropriate technology based on the style of application and business risk involved."
Lumigent Audit DB 6.0 is available immediately. For more information, please visit Lumigent on the Web at http://www.lumigent.com/ or call +1.866.586.4436.
About Lumigent Technologies
Lumigent is the leader in database auditing solutions for compliance and security. Lumigent's award-winning technology offers the most complete database auditing capability available today, providing organizations with strong IT controls for database access to pass IT audits, address regulatory compliance, and enhance data security. Through automation of costly manual controls, Lumigent's solutions support a sustainable, cost-effective compliance program and assure the integrity of sensitive information. Lumigent enables organizations to understand what users can do to sensitive data and validate what they actually did. For further information, please call +1.866.586.4436 or visit www.lumigent.com.
Source: Lumigent Technologies
CONTACT: Roger Hodskins of Lumigent Technologies, +1-978-206-3834, roger.hodskins@lumigent.com;
Web site: http://www.lumigent.com/
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