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New McAfee database security solution offers businesses of all sizes complete threat protection
February 2012 by Marc Jacob
McAfee announced its new McAfee Database Activity Monitoring solution offering reliable, real-time protection for business-critical databases. The solution enables organizations to achieve much greater security management efficiency through its incorporation into the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator centralized security management platform.
According to a 2010 Verizon Business Study, more than 90 percent of records breached involved a database, with more than 87 percent based on exploits requiring significant technical skills. The McAfee database security solution protects databases from external, internal and intra-database threats, requiring no architecture changes or costly downtime. The latest version of McAfee Database Activity Monitoring now supports MySQL and Teradata databases, in an effort to ensure complete protection across the most popular database management systems.
McAfee now enables organizations to easily incorporate database security into their overall security program and realize tremendous management efficiencies with the full integration of McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases into the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator console.
McAfee’s unique approach to database security circumvents the major challenges that prevent most organizations from properly protecting their databases, by offering key features such as:
· Complete visibility into databases vulnerabilities: total insight into the existence, data sensitivity and security posture of each and every database in the environment
· Non-intrusive, real-time protection across all threat vectors: solution requires no changes to existing database and network architecture, as non-intrusive memory-based sensors offer reliable protection for databases from malicious or unauthorized activity across all threat vectors
· Compliance without downtime: through McAfee virtual patching for databases, security updates can be made without the business disruption of taking critical applications offline
