Continuous Monitoring

Understand What Impacts Your Business in Real Time, Without Damaging Performance

AppSec’s monitors your database activity in real-time to help protect your organizations from hackers and outside attacks, malicious or misguided insiders and other users who rightly or wrongly have access to the database.
Our solutions are purpose-built for large, highly complex enterprise environments. We demonstrate the advantages of our performance, architecture and minimally invasive approach to hundreds of high-demand customers every day. Our customers, including 9 out of 10 of the world’s largest banks, major credit card companies and audit firms, rely on our integrated suite of solutions to protect their business critical applications and databases.

Traditional Security Measures are Necessary but Not Sufficient

Throughout the security landscape, there are solutions which purport to protect data. While these measures have a role to play across the information chain, they are insufficient to protect the database—where data lives.

• Data Leak Prevention (DLP) technologies do little to protect the data itself. Focused on end-points such as USB devices, IM or email, they have no impact on database-centric techniques such as root-kits, schema changes or privilege escalation attacks.
  
  
• Encryption is difficult and costly to implement within existing databases. Organizations can receive far greater benefit more quickly via database security measures that serve as “compensating controls” for encryption requirements.
  
• Native DBMS auditing lacks the robust capabilities required to protect and monitor all database activity. Further, relying exclusively on native auditing carries a significant performance cost and does not provide “third-party” validation of security measures.
  
  
• Perimeter and IDS/IPS solutions sit outside the database and do nothing to mitigate exposure to risks “behind the wall” or protect against users with access to the database. Though a critical component of a layered defense, firewalls cannot detect or stop the new class of threats targeting at the database application layer.
  
  
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems do a good job of providing an overarching view of the enterprise IT operations but do not directly apply any security measures at the database application layer.