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Guardium Expands International Reach with 29 New Partners to Meet Growing Demand for Database Security and Compliance

(Aug 21, 2008)-- Guardium, the database security company, is aggressively expanding its international presence to meet increasing demand for safeguarding enterprise data and automating compliance controls.

The company has formed new strategic partnerships with 29 international resellers and system integrators in the past 18 months, and expanded its global team to include five new regional directors responsible for managing and supporting Guardium’s growing indirect channel. This expansion enables Guardium to align its worldwide sales organization and partners to strengthen the company’s market leadership and ability to penetrate emerging markets.

Forrester Research recently named Guardium “a Leader across the board,” with “dominance and momentum on its side.” In this comprehensive assessment, Forrester evaluated 14 large and small vendors across 116 criteria, with Guardium earning the highest overall scores for Architecture, Current Offering and Corporate Strategy (“The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q4 2007” by Noel Yuhanna, October 2007).

As countries worldwide increasingly adopt and enforce more stringent data privacy and data governance regulations – such as the Data Protection Act, PCI-DSS, Basel II, J-SOX and C-SOX– international companies large and small are proactively adopting best practices in data security, change control and compliance.

“SOX has a broader impact than just enterprises regulated by the SEC,” said French Caldwell, Gartner Research Vice-President. “Despite initial resistance in Europe and that SOX-like directives have a less-punitive impact outside the U.S., the auditing standards set by U.S. regulators are spreading internationally and to nonpublic companies.” (Gartner, “Sarbanes-Oxley Update: How to Best Support the CFO” by French Caldwell, April 24, 2008.)

Guardium’s real-time database security and monitoring solution monitors all access to sensitive data, across all major DBMS platforms and applications, without impacting performance or requiring changes to databases or applications. The solution prevents unauthorized or suspicious activities by privileged insiders, potential hackers, and end-users of enterprise applications such as Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, SAP, Business Intelligence and in-house systems. Additional modules are available for performing database vulnerability and configuration assessments, and automating the discovery and classification of sensitive data in corporate databases.

The solution also optimizes operational efficiency with a scalable, multi-tier architecture that automates and centralizes compliance controls across the organization’s entire application and database infrastructure. With 150+ pre-configured policies, compliance reports and approval workflows, Guardium streamlines compliance for key regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and data privacy laws.

“The channel plays a critical role in our ability to reach international companies in need of a proven solution for securing enterprise data and achieving regulatory compliance,” said Martin Pejko, Guardium’s VP of global channels.

“We’ve partnered with some of the most progressive and successful companies in the world, and we’re gaining substantial market share in the world’s fastest growing economies,” said David Valovcin, VP of international sales. “Most importantly, it means that we have a strong team in place to effectively and efficiently help our customers monitor, secure and audit their global database infrastructures across cultures and borders in a consistent manner.”

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