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Tizor Announces Mantra 6 for Automated Discovery of Sensitive Data and Prevention of Unauthorized Database Activity

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Tizor Systems, a leading provider of enterprise database monitoring and protection solutions, today announced Mantra 6 with updated features for data discovery, database security and ease of use. Mantra 6 features include automated discovery for finding databases and specific classes of sensitive data; session termination for blocking unauthorized or suspicious database activity; and drag and drop policy creation for the fastest and easiest implementation of data auditing for risk mitigation.

"Many organizations are realizing that they don't know what data they have, where it is stored, and where it is processed. Successful organizations take a top-down approach, rather than creating a meticulous inventory of all the data within their environment. They identify the very specific pieces of data that can directly affect revenues or the business processes that handle very sensitive data, protect them appropriately, and then use templates and the lessons learned to classify and handle other data within the organization." Making Data Centric Security Real, February 5, 2008 by Paul Stamp, Analyst, Forrester Research

Most companies do not have a complete inventory of their databases or the types of data that exist within them. This lack of visibility creates risks that could lead to insider abuse, data breaches or failure to pass a compliance audit. Mantra 6 automates discovery tasks that previously took months and required a highly manual effort. It quickly finds and classifies databases and the data within them to provide IT, security and compliance professionals with unprecedented visibility into the location of data assets, type of data assets in use, and potential risks to those assets. Mantra's new discovery features are critical for companies that need to find credit card data for the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard compliance, account information for Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) compliance, or user information for personally identifiable or protected health information (PII/PHI) projects. The detailed information that Disc

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