Today’s Security Challenges
One of the biggest challenges facing CISOs today is lack of insight into sensitive data, including where it is stored and how and by whom it is being used. This blind spot makes it almost impossible to formulate effective security strategy and address the most pressing risks to data.
CISOs know better than anyone that security focus needs to be more data-centric than ever before. And new threats to data have proven, very publicly, that traditional security methodologies alone are no longer sufficient to mitigate data risk. This is partly because thieves are more sophisticated and more motivated by a black market that puts a high price on personal information. Insider threats are also more pronounced, whether the threat comes from disgruntled employees, honest employees inadvertently misusing data, or partners such as outsourcers.
Further complicating the CISO’s job are a myriad of compliance regulations, changing business goals, rapidly shrinking resources, and increased pressure from senior stakeholders to avoid non-compliance penalties and protect the company brand from the bad press associated with data breaches.
Eliminating Risk with Data-Centric Security
A CISO’s main goal is to eliminate risk. When it comes to data assets, an effective risk mitigation strategy is imperative for addressing a growing list of risks including insider threats, data breaches, data leakage, identity theft and fraud.
Data centric security will help mitigate and eliminate risks associated with core data assets. It will help answer questions such as:
- Where is my critical data located?
- What is happening with this data? What risks are taking place?
- Do we have the proper controls in place to meet internal and external guidelines?
- Can I trust the integrity of the data?
- Do we have the proper processes in place to protect our data assets?
Without data centric security, you can not answer these questions. That’s why many organizations are turning to database activity monitoring.
Database Activity Monitoring
Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) is quickly becoming a cornerstone of data centric security. It provides needed visibility into what users are doing with data and puts the focus onto core data servers where the highest risk to data exists. Similar to what Data Leak Prevention (DLP) does for email and laptops at the edge of the enterprise, DAM provides data security and ensures data compliance at core data servers to mitigate data risk before it can make its way to the edge.
Mantra Database Monitoring and Protection
Deploys faster, easiest to use and manage, lowest total cost of ownership (TCO)
Mantra is the most comprehensive, intelligent, and easy to deploy and use DAM solution on the market today. Mantra produces measurable results quickly and automates critical but time consuming security and compliance tasks--saving IT and security personnel valuable time and saving the organization money.
Mantra’s discovery capabilities are best in class. Mantra can locate databases and sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and credit card numbers; provide insight into how data is being used and by whom; and automatically create security policies based on discovery findings.
Mantra is also the only solution to include patent-pending Behavioral Fingerprinting® for highly accurate anomaly detection. Real-time and policy driven, Mantra can stop and alert on unauthorized activity in real-time and includes built-in functionality for creating executive level and detailed data security reports.
Tizor’s customers use Mantra to address difficult security challenges such as privileged user monitoring, separation of duties and core database and file share monitoring. Netezza customers selected Manta over other DAM solutions because it delivers the highest database monitoring value for a lower cost of total ownership, scales to the largest data centers and is the easiest solution to use and manage.
Mantra Highlights
- Best-in-class data discovery—discovers the location of sensitive data. Helps classify that data.
- Automated executive and detail level reporting—gives you immediate visibility into what is happening with your data.
- Threat prevention - Behavioral Fingerprinting® identifies suspicious behavior in real time and stops the activity.
- Unified solution – Mantra supports database, mainframes and file shares giving you a unified view of activity across the enterprise.