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- • Privileged User Monitoring
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- Vulnerability Management
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Guardium Expands International Reach
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Guardium Expands International Reach with 29 New Partners and 5 New Regional Directors to Meet Growing Demand
Market Leader Continues Momentum in Europe, Latin America & Asia-Pacific Markets
WALTHAM, Mass. (August 19, 2008) ─ Guardium, the database security company, is aggressively expanding its international presence to meet increasing demand for safeguarding enterprise data and automating compliance controls.
The company has formed new strategic partnerships with 29 international resellers and system integrators in the past 18 months, and expanded its global team to include five new regional directors responsible for managing and supporting Guardium’s growing indirect channel. This expansion enables Guardium to align its worldwide sales organization and partners to strengthen the company’s market leadership and ability to penetrate emerging markets.
Forrester Research recently named Guardium “a Leader across the board,” with “dominance and momentum on its side.” In this comprehensive assessment, Forrester evaluated 14 large and small vendors across 116 criteria, with Guardium earning the highest overall scores for Architecture, Current Offering and Corporate Strategy (“The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007” by Noel Yuhanna, October 2007).
As countries worldwide increasingly adopt and enforce more stringent data privacy and data governance regulations – such as the Data Protection Act, PCI-DSS, Basel II, J-SOX and C-SOX– international companies large and small are proactively adopting best practices in data security, change control and compliance.
“SOX has a broader impact than just enterprises regulated by the SEC,” said French Caldwell, Gartner Research Vice-President. “Despite initial resistance in Europe and that SOX-like directives have a less-punitive impact outside the U.S., the auditing standards set by U.S. regulators are spreading internationally and to nonpublic companies.” (Gartner, “Sarbanes-Oxley Update: How to Best Support the CFO” by French Caldwell, April 24, 2008.)
Far-Reaching Channel Meets Enterprise Data Security & Compliance Needs
Guardium has partnered with more than 40 system integrators and strategic resellers in all major geographies including North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Africa. The company’s international partnerships have already resulted in many key deals with blue-chip companies, including:
- A global European-based bank
- A major mobile telecommunication provider in the Middle East
- A leading Asian bank
- Several key Gulf State financial institutions
- A major Latin American bank
- Accenture – Worldwide
- BMC Software – Worldwide
- AccueTrust Security – Canada
- Arolen – Columbia
- Cyberklix – Canada
- Communication Valley – Italy
- ComProSec – Switzerland
- COMPUTERLINKS – UK, DACH, Nordic Region
- Deloitte – Worldwide
- EComBys – Guatemala
- GlassHouse Technologies – Israel
- Hitachi – Japan
- IDsec – UK
- ITFOR – Japan
- Information System Architects – Canada
- Lutech – Italy
- Net2S – UK
- Nihon Unisys – Japan
- Onyx Group – UK
- One-SEC – UK
- PSS–TI – Spain
- Qumak-Sekom – Poland
- SCom Co. – South Korea
- StarLink – United Arab Emirates
- TeaQ Technologies – India
- Telindus – Benelux Region
- Telus – Canada
- Wipro Technologies – India
- Zepko – UK
Guardium’s real-time database security and monitoring solution monitors all access to sensitive data, across all major DBMS platforms and applications, without impacting performance or requiring changes to databases or applications. The solution prevents unauthorized or suspicious activities by privileged insiders, potential hackers, and end-users of enterprise applications such as Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, SAP, Business Intelligence and in-house systems. Additional modules are available for performing database vulnerability and configuration assessments, and automating the discovery and classification of sensitive data in corporate databases.
The solution also optimizes operational efficiency with a scalable, multi-tier architecture that automates and centralizes compliance controls across the organization’s entire application and database infrastructure. With 150+ pre-configured policies, compliance reports and approval workflows, Guardium streamlines compliance for key regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and data privacy laws.
Expanding Team to Support International Growth
Guardium has hired five new regional directors to manage the company’s aggressive channel growth in Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific:
- Marc Buchwald, managing Southern Europe, who has spent 20+ years working for well-known companies, including Remedy (acquired by BMC) Symantec and CipherTrust.
- Brian Flasck, managing Benelux and Eastern Europe, who comes to Guardium from WebSense where he spent 6 years spearheading a successful channel program in more than 20 countries.
- Enrique Gutierrez, managing Latin America and the Caribbean, who has worked for Embarcadero Technologies, IBM and Informix.
- Richard Murphy, managing the DACH and Nordic regions, who has nearly 25 years of experience working for brand-name companies including EMC, Network Intelligence (acquired by RSA), Secure Computing Corp. and Axent Technologies (acquired by Symantec).
- Nati Shapira, managing Asia-Pacific, who brings 15+ years of pre-sales and software development experience.
“We’ve partnered with some of the most progressive and successful companies in the world, and we’re gaining substantial market share in the world’s fastest growing economies,” said David Valovcin, VP of international sales. “Most importantly, it means that we have a strong team in place to effectively and efficiently help our customers monitor, secure and audit their global database infrastructures across cultures and borders in a consistent manner.”
About Guardium
Guardium, the database security company, delivers the most widely-used solution for ensuring the integrity of enterprise information and preventing information leaks from the data center.
The company’s enterprise security platform is now installed in more than 350 data centers worldwide, including more than 60 Global 500 and Fortune 1000 companies in all major industries. Customers include 3 of the top 4 global banks; 2 of the top 3 global retailers; one of the world’s largest PC manufacturers; a global soft drink brand; and a leading supplier of business intelligence software. The company has partnerships with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Sybase, BMC, EMC, RSA, Accenture, NetApp, McAfee, ArcSight and NEON, with Cisco as a strategic investor, and is a member of IBM’s prestigious Data Governance Council and the PCI Security Standards Council.
Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a scalable enterprise platform that protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process.
Guardium, Safeguarding Databases, and S-TAP are trademarks of Guardium, Inc.
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