Database security is a broad section of information security that concerns itself with protecting databases against compromises of their integrity, confidentiality and availability. It covers various security controls for the information itself stored and processed in database systems, underlying computing and network infrastructures, as well as applications accessing the data.
Guardium software provides a comprehensive solution for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures through centralized, automated security controls across heterogeneous environments. Guardium helps streamline compliance and reduce risk, and offers installready images for IaaS deployments on major cloud platforms, such as IBM SoftLayer®, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, and operating across Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux environments. The flexible Guardium architecture allows for several different deployment models. You can choose the system architecture that works for your enterprise: Guardium components can all be deployed in the cloud, or you can choose to keep some of those components, such as a central manager, on-premises.
Data—dynamic, in demand and distributed—is challenging to secure. But you need to protect sensitive data, whether it’s stored on-premises, off-site, or in big-data, private- or hybrid-cloud environments. Protecting sensitive data can take many forms, but nearly any organization needs to keep its data accessible, protect data from loss or compromise, and comply with a raft of regulations and mandates. These can include the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the European Union (EU). General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Even in the cloud, where you may have less immediate control, you must still control your sensitive data—and compliance mandates still apply.
Healthcare is moving to the cloud and HIPPA regulations still apply. Two key challenges healthcare organizations have when moving to the cloud is preventing the accidental sharing of ePHI via cloud applications and the takeover of your user’s SaaS accounts by hackers due to phishing attacks. Avanan connects to any SaaS or IaaS in one click via API connection. Secure all of your cloud applications from business suites like Office 365, G-Suite, to Citrix ShareFile, and everything in between. With the click of a button, protect your enterprise Office 365, Box, G Suite, or any other SaaS application with cloud-based versions of security technology from best-of-breed vendors like Check Point, Symantec, and McAfee.
Healthcare is migrating to the cloud, putting HIPAA regulations in a new context. Moving clinical and business data into Software as a Service (SaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) improves scalability, interoperability, and cost—but cloud adoption must not be at the expense of security or compliance.
This whitepaper identifies challenges of enforcing HIPAA compliance in the cloud, and offers technical solutions that address these requirements in order to provide lasting security for ePHI.
Since 1977, Capital Caring has improved care for those facing life-limiting illness through public education, advocacy, and direct support of patients and their families. Over 650 employees and 850 volunteers offer hospice, palliative care, and counseling to more than a thousand patients and their families each day. They turned to Avanan to help stop email based phishing attacks that were targeting their O365 users.
NSS Labs' 2018 Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) Group Test evaluated twenty market-leading AEP products on security effectiveness and total cost of ownership (TCO). Results include: 100% Block Rate- Malware Delivered Using HTTP, 100% Block Rate- Malware Delivered Using Email, 100% Block Rate- Malware Delivered via Docs and Scripts, 100% Block Rate- Resistance to Evasion Techniques, 0.1% False Positive Rate- Detection Accuracy. The NSS Labs AEP Security Value Map displays where the top twenty advanced endpoint protection products placed in the results.
NSS Labs' 2018 Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) Group Test evaluated twenty marketleading AEP products on security effectiveness and total cost of ownership (TCO). Results include: 100% Block RateMalware Delivered Using HTTP, 100% Block Rate- Malware Delivered Using Email, 100% Block Rate- Malware Delivered via Docs and Scripts, 100% Block Rate- Resistance to Evasion Techniques, 0.1% False Positive Rate- Detection Accuracy. The NSS Labs AEP test results display the results of the enSilo Endpoint Security platform and the official NSS Labs recommended rating.
While intended for system administration and the automation of daily maintenance and management tasks, PowerShell has become a preferred tool for cybercriminals. Using the framework’s flexibility to carry out reconnaissance, download payloads, and create lateral movement, threat actors are able to quickly create malicious scripts capable of downloading payloads, sniffing out passwords or even downloading and installing PowerShell if it isn’t already installed on the targeted computer. Fileless malware is able to intrude the system through PowerShell vulnerabilities, which raises the concern of PowerShell security issues for security leaders. This whitepaper delves into PowerShell's popularity amongst cyber hackers, how it is being leeched onto by threat actors, and how to protect your endpoints from increasing threat.
Report Describes How to Confidently Measure and Explain Performance
The old elements of logging, metrics, and tracing are insufficient for today’s complex software systems.
If you’re considering or in the midst of adopting microservices, you know that faster root cause analysis and the ability to confidently measure and explain performance is key to improve efficiency and save developer time. Read this report to understand why:
Report Finds Record Growth in Microservices is Disrupting the Operational Landscape
Learn how companies are dealing with application performance challenges in their microservices environments and plan your strategy.
The 2018 Global Microservices Trends report provides data and insights to help you understand the challenges and opportunities you’ll face as you monitor applications in your microservices environment. Read this report to understand:
‘As consumers’ privacy concerns grow, marketers must rethink their data practices. Today’s data governance practices — the rules that guide what consumer data a company collects; how it stores, transfers, and manages that data; and how it uses and disposes of that data — are nebulous at best and dangerously misguided at worst. Marketers must redefine how their organizations treat customers’ personal data.’
This report helps marketers categorize the different types of data their firms collect and provides guidelines on how to govern that data. Get the report and learn:
Download your complimentary copy of the May 2018 Forrester report, “How Dirty is Your Data?” to learn more.
In response to increasingly complex cyberattacks, security pros devote resources to granular aspects of their networks. This is understandable and necessary to a degree, but it's also a great way to lose sight of your ultimate goal: protecting customers and empowering the business. Zero Trust networks accomplish the dual tasks of deep, continuous data inspection across the network and lean operation and oversight — tasks that seem mutually exclusive in traditional networks. This report highlights the eight most significant ways Zero Trust boosts security and your business. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.
IBM Security Guardium for Big Data Intelligence enhances data security deployments to provide improved agility, data retention and analytics
Enacted in April 2016, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been called the most important change in data privacy regulation in decades. Now, it’s sweeping regulations are being enforced by the EU.
GDPR introduces a fundamental change in the relationship between businesses of all sizes and personal data regarding EU citizens that is collected and stored regardless of where your business – or data- is maintained. And, GDPR isn’t just an IT problem. It impacts risk, privacy, security and compliance teams, all of whom may be audited.
Want to get started with GDPR assessment? IBM Security Guardium Analyzer is a purpose-built, SaaS-based tool that can help with all of the above. Available in the IBM Cloud, Guardium Analyzer scans your data – on-premises or cloud– and its next generation classification engine delivers efficient scans that produces a visual guide prioritizing which data might be at risk. Guardium Analyzer shows you the potential vulnerabilities tied to the databases scanned as well as which sensitive data that you need to protect and begin the remediation process.