Guardium Expands Team to Drive Channels
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Guardium Expands Management Team to Drive Growth of Global Channel Business
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Martin W. Pejko to Expand Channel Partnerships to Capitalize on Explosive Demand for Real-Time Database Security and Monitoring Solutions

WALTHAM, Mass. (August 7, 2007) - Guardium, the database security company, today announced the appointment of Martin W. Pejko as vice president of global channels. Pejko will manage and expand relationships with Guardium’s channel partners worldwide, including global system integrators (SIs), national and regional value-added resellers (VARs), and Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

With more than 25 years of technology experience, Pejko joins Guardium from Network Intelligence, a developer of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions that was acquired by EMC in 2006, where he was vice president of global channel sales. An attorney by training, he has also held senior business development and legal counsel positions with companies such as Cisco Systems, Quantum Bridge Communications (acquired by Motorola), and GeoTel Communications (acquired by Cisco). He has also had consulting relationships with Lotus Development and BBN Corporation.

“Channel partners are key to continue growing Guardium’s revenue and market share at an above-average rate,” said Ram Metser, CEO of Guardium. “While our solution easily integrates with existing data center infrastructures, it also provides substantial revenue opportunities for channel partners such as helping customers define corporate policies that address auditors’ requirements, implement automated and centralized controls to reduce compliance costs, and develop holistic strategies for data-centric security that incorporate complementary technologies such as SIEM solutions. Marty’s exceptional experience, combined with booming worldwide demand, will help us achieve our aggressive revenue goals in 2007 and beyond.”

Guardium’s channel partners already include more than 30 organizations in all major geographies, including North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Thanks to strong support from this worldwide channel, the company’s appliance-based technology is the most widely-deployed solution for preventing information leaks from the data center and ensuring the integrity of corporate information.

Unlike traditional database logging solutions, Guardium’s solution creates a continuous audit trail of all database activities - including privileged user activities - without impacting performance or requiring changes to databases or applications. The system leverages real-time policies and continuous comparisons to baselines of normal activity to immediately identify both internal and external threats to corporate databases, while reducing operational costs by automating compliance monitoring and oversight processes for critical regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and data privacy laws.

About Guardium
Guardium, the database security company, develops the most widely-used solution for database activity monitoring, security and auditing, with a blue-chip customer base that spans all major geographies and industries. Founded in 2002, Guardium was the first company to address the core data security gap by delivering a practical, appliance-based platform that both protects databases in real-time and automates the entire compliance auditing process.

Guardium’s investors include Cisco Systems and leading venture capital firms. The company has partnerships with IBM, EMC, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sybase, and is a member of IBM’s prestigious Data Governance Council.

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