With the evolution of Guardium, IBM Security is prepared to support the evolving role of the data security analyst, address challenges, and work with you to help future-proof your organization as much as possible. IBM Security Guardium is a modern, scalable data security platform. It protects sensitive and regulated data across multiple cloud environments while managing compliance obligations, discovering where sensitive data lives, monitoring what's important, and reducing your risk while responding to threats. And as data security threats become a more relevant concern to many of our clients, we have heard questions like:
- “Where do I start in my journey to better manage data security?”
- “How do I investigate threats in real time and prioritize actions based on their impact?”
- “What can I do to extend and automate data security use cases given data governance and privacy initiatives?”
Guardium Data Protection and Guardium Vulnerability Assessment continue to answer your questions by adjusting to the evolving role of the data security analyst. With the new following features, there is something to look forward to for everyone!
Manage data security effectively and compliance programs efficiently
- Detect data security threats in real-time and leverage ML-driven connection insights to optimize resources
- Improved Real-time Trust Evaluator – now includes Anomalies configuration
- Advanced detection with Security Incident policies (session-level policies)
- Compliance tags for Security Incident policies
- Compliance readiness support for OMB-M-21-31 memo with tags for federal and state organizations
Enhancements to increase usability and performance
- Share and collaborate on Guardium Report Dashboards based on roles in your security team
- Enhanced alerting - support for well-formatted emails/reports associated with threshold alerts
- Enhancements to schedule classifier scans and to compare scan results to manage data classification at scale
- Simplified support for changing the order of classification rules
- Reduce time to analyze discovery results and enforce protection for Oracle RAC databases
- Improved stability and supportability for Unix S-TAP
- Support for better multi-threading in ELB,
- S-TAP responsiveness with redaction and others
- Health check for all EXIT DBs
Automated integrations and workflows to deliver data-centric protection
- Federated access enforcement support to ensure data governance with integration to IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog
- Support for IBM Discover and Classify (1touch) to extend data protection for sensitive data assets such as PII, PHI, etc.
- Certified Vulnerability Assessment integration to ServiceNow Vulnerability Response and Configuration Compliance modules to manage remediation programs more efficiently
- Synchronize VA database type, database group & test-result entries for tighter integration with ServiceNow CMDB
- Designed to show all VA test results in ServiceNow and be able to initiate scanning jobs, tests, etc. directly from the ServiceNow user interface
- Centrally manage all tools & automatically assign tickets via ServiceNow, now available in ServiceNow Store
Scale data protection for database services in the cloud
- Support for monitoring using Guardium Universal Connector plugins for data sources on AWS, Azure, and GCP and, on-premise
Support new data sources with data protection capabilities
- Data Activity Monitoring / S-TAP enhancements
- SSL support with S-TAP for SAP HANA
- EXIT-based monitoring support for MySQL and Netezza
- External S-TAP enhancements - certification for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.0.8
Vulnerability Assessment (VA) enhancements
- New VA support for data sources - Snowflake and MariaDB
- New SSL support for VA for SAP HANA, Informix, SAP IQ, and Oracle Wallet
- New Entitlement Reporting support for data sources including Snowflake, MariaDB, Redshift
Currency updates for DAM
- Teradata 17.10, SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 6, MySQL 8.0.28, CouchDB 3.2, Couchbase 7.0.2, Cloudera 7.1.7, Greenplum 6.19.1, Elasticsearch 7.15, Postgres 14.2, Cassandra 4.0 (SSL), Vertica DB 11.0, and many others
- Current updates for VA: improved scan tests for -
- Couchbase 7.0, Postgres 13 (CIS benchmark), and Oracle 21c
To learn more about the specific updates on the Guardium Data Protection and Guardium Vulnerability Assessment 11.5 release, join us on October 6th for a community webinar where Rajesh Venkatasubbu will discuss in greater detail and show product demos.
In the meantime, check out what's new in Guardium Insights 3.2 and these additional resources below: