McAfee Unveils Database Security Solution

McAfee has announced its new McAfee Database Activity Monitoring solution offering reliable, real-time protection for business-critical databases. The solution enables organisations to achieve much greater security management efficiency through its incorporation into the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator centralised security management platform.

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 organisations to easily incorporate database security into their overall security program and realise tremendous management efficiencies with the full integration of McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases into the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator console.

“Typically, three out of four organisations rely solely on the native database security features provided by their database vendor. Organisations of all types and sizes that possess sensitive and valuable database information (credit card information, patient records, corporate financial data, etc.) are vulnerable to breaches which can be perpetrated by outside hackers or privileged insiders,” said Slavik Markovich, chief technology officer of database security at McAfee.

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McAfee’s unique approach to database security circumvents the major challenges that prevent most organisations 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.

The solution requires no changes to existing database and network architecture, as non-intrusive memory-based sensors offer reliable protection for databases from malicious or unauthorised activity across all threat vectors. It also features compliance without downtime through McAfee virtual patching for databases, security updates can be made without the business disruption of taking critical applications offline.