Lumigent Technologies.

• Position: AUDIT SOFTWARE

Lumigent Technologies has introduced a new version of its flagship Audit DB product that delivers a database security and compliance system that supports all three common methods of data collection in a single, unified platform.

Until now, the company claims, organizations wishing to monitor and protect their databases had to choose among three different methods of data collection: capturing traffic as it flows across the network, analyzing log files of actual database transactions or relying on the database's native auditing capabilities. With the introduction of Audit DB 6.0 and the AuditFlex™ architecture, companies no longer need to choose one approach over the other and can, for the first time, mix and match the three approaches as dictated by IT or regulatory requirements, the Acton, Mass., company said in an announcement.

Audit DB 6.0 leverages Lumigent's new AuditFlex architecture to increase the scope and completeness of database security and compliance by delivering significant new features, including network-based real-time alerts, enhanced application user auditing, a new privacy reporting module, change-ticket auditing and a new workflow system. These new capabilities will address "any and all issues related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, privacy, privileged-user monitoring, fraud...