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Mantra v5.4 with Enterprise Local Audit Architecture allows administrators to monitor all local and privileged user access to databases. Software features both agent-less and agent-based approaches for heterogeneous environments. System monitors loopback, shared memory, and named pipe connections without requiring database system changes. Other features include scheduled reports, assorted reporting templates, and compliance-based workflow and signing capabilities for reporting.
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Tizor Expands Network Data Auditing and Protection Capabilities with Enterprise Local Audit Architecture
Maynard, Mass. - June 18, 2007 - Tizor Systems, the leading provider of enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for the data center, today announced Mantra v5.4 with Enterprise Local Audit Architecture, the most complete solution for monitoring all local and privileged user access to databases. Mantra's Enterprise Local Audit Architecture combines the new technology Enterprise-TAP (E-TAP) agent with Mantra's current agent-less local audit capabilities enabling customers to choose the approach that best fits their needs for monitoring local database activity, including privileged user activity. Combined with new customized reporting and workflow features, Mantra V5.4 further extends Mantra's lead in providing a high performance-network data monitoring solution with complete visibility into all critical data activity.
Until now, enterprises that needed to monitor local user activity were forced to choose between a local agent-based solution and an agent-less solution. Mantra v5.4, with Enterprise Local Audit Architecture, enables both approaches, providing customers with the flexibility to address complex heterogeneous environments. This capability makes Mantra the most comprehensive and flexible approach for monitoring privileged users with local access to databases. It also gives customers the flexibility to mix and match approaches for different environments.
Local Audit Highlights:
Mantra agent-less local audit does not require the installation of agents on servers. The agent-less approach provides complete visibility into encrypted connections to the databases.
Mantra E-TAP local agent monitors all local activity regardless of how the users connect to the database. E-TAP monitors local loopback connections as well as other connections, such as shared memory and named pipes, without requiring changes to database systems.
Both the agent-less and E-TAP approaches have no material impact on database performance. They both work in concert with Mantra's network-level monitoring by using a common policy system and Mantra presents audit information gathered by any of the methods in fully integrated reports and alerts.
Mantra v5.4 includes next-generation reporting capabilities that allow users to create customized views of any set of data audited by Mantra. Users select the data to view, choose a presentation style and dynamically generate the report. Reports can be automatically scheduled to run on designated days at specific times. A broad range of report templates are shipped with Mantra v5.4, including suspicious user activity reports, privileged user reports such as DDL and DML reports, failed login reports, dormant data reports and many others. This feature enables unprecedented visibility into data activity by capturing the full details of all audited events and making this data available for reporting and forensics.
In addition, Mantra v5.4 provides compliance-based workflow and signing capabilities for reporting to enable workflow approvals for audit reports. Unlike first generation data auditing workflow solutions, Mantra supports automated multi-stage, multi-level management approval processes and audit and attestation report approval. Mantra is also the first solution to provide report signing for auditor assurance.
"We realize that customer environments can differ considerably and may be best served by a mixture of approaches for capturing user activity information," said Joel Rosen, CEO of Tizor Systems. "This new local audit architecture, combined with the very high performance characteristics of Mantra, reflects our continued commitment to provide the most scalable and flexible platform in our industry for monitoring user activity."
About Mantra
Mantra is a new class of network-based data auditing and protection solution that provides enterprises with a unified approach to auditing database, file systems and mainframe environments. Mantra provides a number of customer benefits including:
oHigh-performance - unlike firewall-based solutions, Mantra is specifically designed for high-speed network based-monitoring and auditing, so fewer appliances are needed.
oNo performance impact on production databases or file systems.
oA single solution for monitoring all critical data - structured and unstructured.
oBuilt-in intelligence - patent-pending technology solves a broader range of data theft/data breach and compliance auditing problems.
About Tizor
Tizor provides the world's largest companies with the only enterprise data auditing and protection solutions capable of monitoring and reporting on all critical data activity across the enterprise data center - databases, file servers, and mainframe applications - for compliance assurance, data protection and theft detection. Tizor's Mantra solutions enable the highest level of compliance assurance, data security and privacy by providing a complete life-cycle of intelligent data auditing capabilities including audit reporting, theft detection, alerting and data protection that deliver real-time insight into and control over user activity affecting critical data assets. Founded by former Bell Labs researchers and headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, Tizor is venture financed and led by industry veterans in networking, security, and software and systems management. More information on Tizor can be found at www.tizor.com.
