Looking Back: Top 10 Security Stories of 2009
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IBM Validates Database Security
Where better to protect the data than in the main repository for most corporate information: the database? This has been the rallying cry for several years now among security analysts and proponents for the database activity monitoring (DAM) market.
Clearly, their declarations have gained traction within the enterprise and the security market in general. The biggest sign of this shined through earlier this month with a $225-million IBM acquisition of the largest standalone DAM in the market, Guardium. Analysts proclaimed the price tag was a huge validation of the importance of database security in general
What the purchase itself means for Guardium partners and the IBM channel at large still remains to be seen, though some of Guardium's competitors remain skeptical of its ability to properly support and integrate the technology within the IBM schema.
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