Guardium is among the most widely used database security product out there when it comes to enterprise deployments. The product itself was first made commercially available in 2002 – so it has been a long journey. But the innovation at Guardium never stops, and this year a new product was introduced within the Guardium family – IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence. Guardium Big Data Intelligence (GBDI) or as we affectionately nickname it “BigG”, is a big data and analytics platform purpose-built for solving a wide range of database security requirements. At its core, it couples the tremendous data capture capabilities of Guardium with next-generation Big Data technology pre-built as a security data lake.

We have seen steadily increasing interest in learning more about Guardium Big Data Intelligence as companies continue to increase their investments in Guardium and in data security. Key new drivers spurring this growth include moving workloads to the cloud, the need for automation, compliance requirements that require long-term data retention, and more.

Therefore, we’re embarking on a series of six blog entries to give Guardium clients within the user community more information regarding Guardium Big Data Intelligence. Rather than going through features and functions we decided go through a set of the most common use cases highlighting how customers are using Guardium Big Data Intelligence and what benefits they are reaping. We intend to have a blog entry in the series every 2 weeks or so and in each one focus on one particular subject. Specifically, the plan is to outline what customers are doing in each of the following areas:

• Long-term retention
• Ad-hoc exploration, search and self-service
• Noise-reduction analytics
• Automation and orchestration
• Trusted connection management
• Database User and Entity Activity Analytics

Stay tuned for more!