Snapshot: IBM InfoSphere Guardium V 9.0 - 70632

IBM InfoSphere Guardium V9.0 is a new release of the IBM database security product. However, in its new release it extends real-time database monitoring beyond databases to other data stores, including data warehouses, big data environments, and file shares.

IBM InfoSphere Guardium takes a big step forward from database protection towards data protection. IBM managed this balancing act well with the new release, further extending its strength in the database security market segment and enhancing this to new information management systems This potentially imposes the risk of ending up with a solution that can provide some protection for everything but isn’t leading-edge anymore in its traditional area, i.e. in that case database security, but the product remains leading-edge there will broadening its focus significantly.