Security vendors from Imperva to Guardium are increasingly tying security information management to database activity monitoring. The latest example of this trend is NitroSecurity. More and more vendors are tying together database activity monitoring and security information management, a move that could benefit enterprise data protection efforts. Late last year, Imperva and ArcSight announced interoperability between their products. Earlier in 2008, Guardium announced integration with a number of security information management (SIM) vendors, including ArcSight, CA and LogLogic. Six months after purchasing RippleTech for its database activity monitoring (DAM) and log management tools, NitroSecurity announced today it has fully integrated its NitroView DBM and NitroView ESM products.
From a management perspective, combining SIM – or SIEM, security information event management – and DAM centralizes monitoring and policy implementation.
“The example of a pooled application comes to mind, where an application is accessing a database, but multiple users are logging into the application,” said Frank Hayes, vice president of marketing at NitroSecurity.
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