WALTHAM, Mass. - (Business Wire)
Guardium, the database security company, will host
an executive seminar on
“Best Practices for Database Security & Compliance
” on Tuesday, September 9
th in San Francisco, featuring Forrester principal analyst Noel Yuhanna and database security expert Ron Bennatan, Ph.D., Guardium
’s CTO.
Attendees will gain practical recommendations on the latest methods for protecting sensitive data stored in corporate databases – such as financial/ERP information, credit card data, personally identifiable information (PII) and intellectual property – and reducing compliance costs via automated and centralized controls for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and data privacy laws.
According to Forrester, “Database auditing and real-time protection have become necessities for all ... to meet regulatory compliance requirements and mitigate risk against various types of threats to enterprise databases.” Forrester recently named Guardium “a Leader across the board” in enterprise database auditing and real-time protection, with “dominance and momentum on its side.” In this comprehensive assessment, Forrester evaluated 14 large and small vendors across 116 criteria, with Guardium earning the highest overall scores for Architecture, Current Offering and Corporate Strategy. (“The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007” by Noel Yuhanna, October 2007.)
This ½ -day event is being held at the Le Méridien San Francisco Hotel and is being produced by TechTarget, the publisher of SearchSecurity.com, Information Security Magazine and SearchFinancialSecurity.com.
Expert Speakers Discuss Key Topics in Data Security
The featured Forrester keynote speaker, Noel Yuhanna, has more than 20 years of experience in IT and has held various technical and management positions. He covers database management systems (DBMS), information-as-a-service, data replication and integration, data security, data management tools, and related online transaction processing issues. Mr. Yuhanna came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, Yuhanna spent several years at Exodus Communications and led a group responsible for planning and implementing mission-critical enterprise applications. During the seminar, Mr. Yuhanna will discuss:
- The most common insider threats and how to prevent them
- Best practices for database auditing and real-time protection
- Preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data with granular access controls
- Deploying automated controls for SOX, PCI and data privacy
- Forrester's latest research on vendor evaluation criteria
Guardium’s presenter, CTO Ron Bennatan, brings more than 20 years of experience developing enterprise applications and security technology for blue-chip companies such as Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Intel, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. An IBM Gold consultant, he architected the industry’s first real-time database security and auditing solution. Bennatan holds a Ph.D. in distributed computing and has authored 11 technical books, including the definitive guide Implementing Database Security and Auditing (Elsevier Digital Press). Dr. Bennatan will provide a demo of Guardium’s technology and discuss:
- Implementing fine-grained auditing without the overhead of database-resident auditing/logging
- Monitoring privileged users and enforcing change controls for critical databases
- Creating centralized, cross-DBMS audit repositories and access control policies
- Protecting against external attacks such as SQL injection
- Preventing fraud with application monitoring for Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, SAP, Business Objects, etc.
| WHAT: | | Seminar: "Best Practices for Database Security & Compliance" |
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| WHEN: | | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at Le Méridien San Francisco |
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| WHO: | | Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst, Forrester |
| | Ron Bennatan, CTO, Guardium |
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| WHO SHOULD ATTEND: | | C-level executives and day-to-day IT security and database practitioners - anyone involved with IT security, risk management and compliance, corporate governance and privacy, database administration and enterprise application architectures. |
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| WHERE: | | Register online at http://events.techtarget.com/DatabaseSecurity/?Offer=SEgdEv or contact Amanda Lamb at 508-621-5574. |
About Guardium
Guardium, the database security company, delivers the most widely-used solution for ensuring the integrity of enterprise information and preventing information leaks from the data center.
The company’s enterprise security platform is now installed in more than 350 data centers worldwide, including more than 60 Global 500 and Fortune 1000 companies in all major industries. Customers include 3 of the top 4 global banks; 2 of the top 3 global retailers; one of the world’s largest PC manufacturers; a global soft drink brand; and a leading supplier of business intelligence software. The company has partnerships with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Sybase, BMC, EMC, RSA, Accenture, NetApp, McAfee, ArcSight and NEON, with Cisco as a strategic investor, and is a member of IBM's prestigious Data Governance Council and the PCI Security Standards Council.
Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a scalable enterprise platform that protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process.
Guardium, Safeguarding Databases, and S-TAP are trademarks of Guardium, Inc.
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