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WALTHAM, Mass. New SQL RemoteGuard Non Intrusive Monitoring Probe Provides Flexible SQL Guard Options for Departmental and Remote Distributed Databases

Guardium, Inc., a leading provider of database security solutions, today expanded its SQL Guard(TM) enterprise security family with SQL RemoteGuard(TM), a non intrusive software monitoring probe that makes it easy to protect databases in departmental and remote, distributed sites. SQL RemoteGuard is a synergistic and seamless extension of SQL Guard, delivering unprecedented visibility, auditing and monitoring of remote database access activities.ECG battery With this new product, Guardium continues to lead the industry with the most complete suite of solutions for database access monitoring, access control, auditing and compliance, regardless of database location.

"SQL RemoteGuard extends the power of SQL Guard's database security and continuous auditing to remote sites," said Ram Metser, president and CEO of Guardium. "As regulatory compliance and IT governance initiatives continue to be at the forefront, it is increasingly imperative that companies audit and protect databases throughout their entire organizations. They now have a seamless, cost effective way to safeguard practically any database in the enterprise."

SQL RemoteGuard: Database Security for Remote Datacenters

Guardium's new SQL RemoteGuard is a lightweight, software based module that provides continuous, real time monitoring and auditing of remote database access activities. Unlike intrusive software agents that can impact database performance, SQL RemoteGuard is non intrusive to the database and does not degrade database performance. SQL RemoteGuard monitors all remote database activity and leverages a central SQL Guard server for CPU intensive analysis and key database applications such as the SQL Guard Security Suite(TM) and Compliance Accelerator(TM). With unprecedented continuous, real time visibility into all access to databases, SQL Guard enables organizations to gain precise knowledge about the who, what, when and how of activity between all internal/external users and distributed relational databases. In addition, Guardium's SQL Guard platform provides task oriented applications such as its SQL Guard Security Suite and Compliance Accelerator to enable, simplify and automate database security and auditing functions. These unique capabilities allow SQL Guard to effectively tackle critical enterprise security challenges that include database access control and enforcement, database auditing tasks and regulatory compliance initiatives.

Pricing and Availability

SQL RemoteGuard is available now as an option for the SQL Guard platform and is priced at $7,995 for unlimited licenses per SQL Guard platform.

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