Guardium Inc.

• Position: DATA SECURITY

Guardium Inc., a database security company, has introduced a new data privacy product that it calls the first database-centric solution for preventing identity theft, including unauthorized access by "trusted" insiders.

The Guardium Data Privacy Accelerator[TM] builds upon the Guardium SQL Guard[TM] platform. Guardium says that customers in a broad range of industries--including financial services, telecommunications, retail, media, energy, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals--use its products to monitor and prevent unauthorized access to their valuable information, which can include credit card and Social Security numbers, as well as corporate financial information. Guardium's family of network appliances supports all leading enterprise databases, anywhere on the network.

The Guardium Data Privacy Accelerator delivers a portfolio of pre-configured policies, real-time alerts and audit reports that are specifically tailored to the challenges of identify theft, based on industry best practices, the company says. For example, the system...