IBM Guardium Data Protection Documentation
Automate compliance auditing and reporting, find and categorize data and data sources, keep an eye on user behavior, and react quickly to hazards.
IBM Security Guardium Data Protection
Within the Guardium range of IBM Security solutions is data security software known as IBM Guardium Data Protection. With features including near real-time threat response workflows, automatic compliance audits and reporting, and data activity monitoring and analytics, this all-inclusive data security software safeguards both on-premises and cloud data stores.
Data security in the cloud computing era
The zero-trust, contemporary approach to data security is supported by IBM Guardium Data Protection. You can have complete security regardless of where your data is stored.
- Find and categorize sensitive material in a variety of large data repositories, including on-premise mainframes, structured data environments, AWS, DBaaS, and unstructured data in files.
- For prompt and astute reaction to sophisticated threats, extensive activity monitoring and adaptable deployment options are provided.
- Utilize pre-built templates for PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and many more laws to streamline and automate data compliance procedures.
IBM Guardium Data Protection Advantages
Obtain quicker adherence
Data security and speedier compliance are made possible by preinstalled capabilities. Prebuilt policies, user-friendly processes, compliance tagging, and long-term data retention all contribute to accelerating time to value, allowing you to comply with regulatory standards like PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA more quickly.
Concentrate all authority and visibility in one place
Organizations may break down silos, speed up response times, and lower business risk by implementing a data protection strategy with centralized policy administration and enforcement across hybrid multicloud systems. This strategy provides actionable intelligence from a single location.
Quieten up near security operations centers
Your SIEM’s cost can be considerably decreased by sharing actionable, high-priority events with SOAR and SIEM systems automatically. This eliminates the need for manual action, speeds up response times, and enhances the quality of the data being examined.
Implement security measures almost immediately
With actionable intelligence, you can empower your team to identify and prioritize the biggest dangers fast. Observe security policies, privileged user actions, change control, application user activities, sensitive data access control, and security exceptions promptly to enable prompt correction.
Safeguard data throughout the hybrid multicloud
Implement security measures that safeguard data for all user activities, change control, and data access throughout the organization. Numerous cloud platforms, such as Amazon AWS, Google, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle OCI, are supported by Guardium for deployment.
Modern infrastructure can cut expenses and overhead
Flexible deployment choices and elastic scalability are supported by containerized orchestration. As your data and IT infrastructure expand and evolve, adapt your data security to keep costs down.
IBM Guardium Data Protection Features
Dynamic evaluation of risk
To identify users who pose a concern, the concern Spotter employs a dynamic risk assessment that takes into account various risk criteria. Using the audited data, a daily total risk score for each user is computed, which you can use to rank the mitigating activities in order of importance.
Threat analytics in action
Potential security breach cases are displayed on the Active Threat Analytics dashboard based on recognized attack symptoms and an outlier mining procedure. You may view, look into, and take action on specific instances from this dashboard.
Intelligent helper
One low-touch, guided, four-step workflow feature is the Smart Assistant. By creating unique policies, workflows, and reports for international laws like PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR, CCPA, Basel, HIPAA, and others, it assists you in getting started with compliance monitoring.
All-purpose connection
An open-source framework that is lightweight is called Universal Connector. It is used to create Guardium plug-ins that leverage native audit logs to monitor on-premises and cloud data sources. It is encouraged for partners and customers to use the Universal Connector framework to create their own plug-ins.
Monitoring that is agent-based or agentless
Guardium supports both External S-TAPs (placed inline for cloud and containerized data sources) and S-TAPs (installed at the data source) for agent-based monitoring. Agentless solutions supported are cloud event streams (AWS Kinesis and Azure Event Hubs) and Universal Connector plug-ins.
Evaluation of vulnerability
Based on benchmarks from STIG, CIS, CVE, and other parameters, the IBM Guardium Vulnerability Assessment examines data infrastructure, including databases, data warehouses, and big data environments both on-premises and in the cloud to identify vulnerabilities and recommend corrective measures.
Centralized, flexible system
With minimal to no performance impact, IBM Guardium Data Protection can easily grow from one data source to tens of thousands. The platform automatically adjusts to changes in the data center to support this enormous scalability and provide better load balancing management. This is a perfect feature when you need to support huge deployments and frequent modifications.
Utilize Guardium Data Protection with the data sources of your choosing
Guardium Data Protection For Databases
Guardium Data Protection for Databases employs machine learning analytics, near real-time activity monitoring, and automated data identification and classification to identify anomalous activity pertaining to sensitive data kept in databases, data warehouses, and other structured data environments. IBM Db2, Oracle, Teradata, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows, UNIX, Linux, AS/400 and z/OS, and Hadoop NoSQL are among the data platforms that the solution supports. Key enterprise resource planning, CRP, and bespoke applications are also supported.
BIG Data
Guardium Data Protection for Big Data offers complete transparency into data activity, leveraging machine learning techniques and near real-time data monitoring to identify anomalous activity surrounding critical data. In order to protect against both internal and external threats, managers can choose to ban access or quarantine users based on the solution’s ability to identify suspicious activities based on user access patterns. With a pre-made regulation template, it streamlines compliance operations and works with both Hadoop and NoSQL environments.
Guardium Data Protection for Files
To assist you in better understanding and managing unstructured data risks, Guardium Data Protection for Files offers automated unstructured data discovery and classification in files and file systems, including NAS, SharePoint, Windows, Unix, and Linux. With intelligent access control and file activity monitoring across files and file systems, machine learning analytics can identify anomalous activity surrounding sensitive data.
Mainframes
You can install on-premises mainframes with data protection integrated, such as IBM z Systems, by using Guardium Data Protection for z/OS. By automating data identification and classification, near real-time activity monitoring, and machine learning analytics, the system guards against attacks. SIEM systems receive alerts in order to correlate risks and expedite response. Additionally, you may proactively evaluate your Db2, information management system, and data sets for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
DBaaS
Encrypted data stored in cloud-native platforms like IBM Cloud Pak for Data and database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platforms can benefit from Guardium Data Protection for Database Services’ automated data discovery and classification, near real-time activity monitoring, and machine learning analytics. The solution works with cloud-based databases that are used as services, such as Azure Database-Platform-as-a-Service and AWS RDS.
AWS
You can scale and develop in AWS with Guardium Data Protection, all the while protecting sensitive data. With a unified set of strong security controls, such as discovery and classification, vulnerability and risk assessments, near real-time monitoring and alerting, security policy controls, advanced analytics, and integration across the security stack, you can quickly achieve smarter, more unified data protection across your hybrid AWS cloud environment.
2Bsecure
2Bsecure, an IBM Business Partner, is committed to cybersecurity around-the-clock. It helps large and mid-sized businesses in various industries safeguard their data and systems from an increasing number of attacks and exploits. Consequently, Bituach Haklai, a top insurance company in Israel, has benefited from 2Bsecure’s assistance in hardening its databases with granular access controls supported by intelligent monitoring.
IBM Guardium Data Protection
IBM’s customer received the database firewalls, advanced granular access controls, and desired monitoring and response capabilities from IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, which we recommended. Along with agentless monitoring features, the system supports Bituach Haklai’s goals for a hybrid cloud architecture.
