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Dell Safeguards 1,000+ Oracle & SQL Server Systems in 10 Data Centers Worldwide; Streamlines Compliance for SOX, PCI, SAS70

“Deployment of the Guardium platform successfully met the requirements established by Dell without causing an outage to any of its databases, and produced a significant reduction in auditing overhead.”

Safeguarding data is critical for many organizations, and auditing data access activity to comply with regulatory standards can be a complex undertaking.

As part of its initiative to simplify IT, Dell implemented the Guardium platform and database activity monitoring (DAM) technology to help protect more than 1,000 database servers distributed across 10 data centers worldwide.  Dell is also reducing operational costs by leveraging Guardium’s compliance workflow automation to automate and centralize compliance processes for SOX, PCI and SAS 70.

Featured in Dell Power Solutions magazine, this case study takes an in-depth look at how Dell wanted to replace its manual processes with an automated solution that monitored all databases and enterprise applications, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server® on both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, supporting applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle Hyperion software.  The solution needed to:

• Make only minimal overhead demands on the database server
• Provide automated evidence for passing audit requirements
• Be deployed without DBA expertise and without changes to the databases
• Compare and report audit data with change tickets that were approved in the Dell change management system
• Alert staff in real time on critical security events, such as brute-force password and SQL injection attacks
• Provide separation of duties for privileged users, ensuring accuracy and integrity of all user and database activities and commands stored in the audit repository
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Read the entire case study or view the on-demand Webcast to learn more.