News Release: New McAfee Database Security Solution Offers Businesses of all Sizes Complete Threat Protection
Plug-in for MySQL and Ability to Manage Database Security Outside of its
Own Silo RSA Conference, San Francisco - Feb. 28, 2012 - McAfee today announced
its new McAfee Database Activity Monitoring solution offering reliable,
real-time protection for business-critical databases. The solution
enables organizations to achieve much greater security management
efficiency through its incorporation into the McAfee ePolicy
Orchestrator centralized security management platform.
According to a 2010 Verizon Business Study, more than 90 per cent of
records breached involved a database, with more than 87 per cent
resulting from exploits requiring significant technical skills. The
McAfee database security solution protects databases from external,
internal and intra-database threats, requiring no architecture changes
or costly downtime. The latest version of McAfee Database Activity
Monitoring now supports MySQL and Teradata databases, in an effort to
ensure complete protection across the most popular database management
systems. “Teradata worked closely with McAfee to enable its support of
Teradata in the new release of McAfee Database Activity Monitoring,”
said Jim Browning, Enterprise Security Architect for Teradata Labs.
“Companies using McAfee can now realize the power of Teradata,
while better monitoring user activity and enhancing the protection of
highly sensitive data.” McAfee now enables organizations to easily incorporate database
security into their overall security program and realize tremendous
management efficiencies with the full integration of McAfee
Vulnerability Manager for Databases into the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
console. “Typically, three out of four organizations rely solely on the native
database security features provided by their database vendor,” said
Slavik Markovich, chief technology officer of database security at
McAfee. “Organizations of all types and sizes that possess sensitive
and valuable database information, such as credit card information,
patient records and corporate financial data, are vulnerable to breaches
which can be perpetrated by outside hackers or privileged insiders.” McAfee’s unique approach to database security circumvents the major
challenges that prevent most organizations from properly protecting
their databases, by offering key features such as: ● Complete visibility into databases’ vulnerabilities: total
insight into the existence, data sensitivity and security posture of
each and every database in the environment
● Non-intrusive, real-time protection across all threat vectors:
requires no changes to existing database and network architecture, as
non-intrusive memory-based sensors offer reliable protection for
databases from malicious or unauthorized activity across all threat
vectors
● Compliance without downtime: through McAfee virtual patching for
databases, security updates can be made without the business disruption
of taking critical applications offline For more information about McAfee Database Security and to watch a
video, visit
http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/database-security/index.aspx. About McAfee
McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC),
is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee
delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure
systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users
to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more
securely. Backed by its unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee
creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the
public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance
with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, ident
ify
vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security.
McAfee is relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep
our customers safe. http://www.mcafee.com McAfee Canada is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, with regional
offices across Canada. The company's Consumer Software Research and
Development facility in based in Waterloo, Ontario.

