Industry Recognition
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Don’t take our word for it.  Here’s what industry analysts, security professionals, and other experts are saying about our market-leading position.


According to Forrester, Guardium is “A Leader across the board” with “dominance and momentum on its side (Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007).  In its comprehensive assessment, Forrester evaluated 14 large and small vendors across 116 criteria, with Guardium earning the #1 score for Architecture and the highest overall scores for Current Offering, Product Strategy, and Corporate Strategy.  Forrester expects Guardium to “maintain its leadership in supporting large heterogeneous environments, delivering high performance and scalability, simplifying administration, and performing real-time database protection.”


Guardium has been named a Red Herring 100 North America winner, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies in North America.  The magazine’s editorial board identified the top 100 out of more than 1,500 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of IT innovation.  Previous award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.


Cisco is a strategic investor in Guardium.  The Guardium solution supports a vision of adaptive, network-based security with application-layer intelligence for preventing unauthorized or malicious access to the corporate data center. This high-performance network continuously responds to security events as they take place, rather than later, when an organization may have already suffered damage.


“SQL server attacks abounded last year, evidenced in the Test Center’s threat reports of 2008. A relentless amount of SQL hacking attempts were logged as well. Compromised databases accounted for many of the big computer security breach news stories in 2008. This is why a lot of companies are turning to database security solutions like Guardium ... [which] may contain the most powerful compliance regulations tools that the Test Center has ever seen.”


SC Magazine gave Guardium 5-Star ratings for Features, Performance and Ease-of-Use, citing its “easy installation, massive database support, sophisticated reporting, strong policy-based security [and] PCI out-of-the-box.” The review describes the product as a “sophisticated database security solution that is simple to install and deploy” with “an extensive range of security features that allow companies to monitor and audit database usage and enforce policies to prevent unauthorized access.”


InformationWeek rated Guardium “at the top of the DBEP [database extrusion prevention] class” with “capabilities that stand out from other products we’ve tested” and a “solid feature set that should please security pros looking to take back control of database security.” According to the review, Guardium “has thrown in practically every feature you’ll need to lock down sensitive data” with a “well-designed and attractive Web interface that shows off the maturity of the 6.0 release.”


According to Information Security magazine, Guardium’s solution “has evolved from an impressive technology to an enterprise-class security product that should be on every organization’s radar.”


Bank Technology News named Guardium ”one of 10 technology companies to watch”, stating that the company’s “innovation is getting them noticed” and that Guardium is “in the right place at the right time with the right partners.” Past winners of this prestigious award have included Oracle and RSA, The Security Division of EMC.  The publication notes that ING Investment Management is one of Guardium’s customers, while citing Guardium’s “top talent, led by chief technology officer Ron Bennatan, who’s developed apps for J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch, [AT&T Bell Laboratories] and Intel.”


SQL Server Magazine honored Guardium with a 2007 Editor’s Choice Award Gold Winner in the “Auditing and Compliance” category. This marked the second year in a row that Guardium has received an Editor’s Choice Award from the magazine, having been recognized in the “Security” category during 2006.  The awards recognize superior products in the market based on strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage, and the value they deliver to customers.


Guardium was named a finalist for the 2008 Reader’s Trust Award for Best Intellectual Property Protection.


Guardium was named a finalist for the prestigious 2008 American Business Awards in the category of “Best New Product or Service - Computer Software.” Guardium 6 was one of more than 2,600 nominations spanning 40+ categories.  Other finalists include: Microsoft; Adobe Systems; Citrix Online; salesforce.com; and WebEx Communications.  Hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” (New York Post, April 27, 2005), The American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business.