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Imperva provides most comprehensive database activity monitoring capabilities for mainframe users
July 2010 by Marc Jacob
Imperva announced today it will partner with NEON Enterprise Software to provide best in class database auditing capabilities for DB2 on z/OS. Imperva and NEON will integrate and embed NEON’s proven DB2 auditing technology into Imperva’s Securesphere Data Security Suite.
The addition of NEON technology to the Imperva SecureSphere Suite expands Imperva’s existing support for auditing DB2 for z/OS via integration with IBM Audit Management Expert (AME), enabling Imperva customers to choose from the broadest range of options to support their mainframe environments.
The key capabilities Imperva’s SecureSphere integration with Neon include:
· A native z/OS collector covering all local and privileged activities. The collector extends Imperva’s existing network traffic monitoring of DB2 on z/OS.
· Granular auditing of sensitive DB2 objects without resource-intensive internal tracing facilities; no changes to DB2 schema is required.
· Offload of most processing to zIIP specialty processors to minimize impact on mainframe central processors and avoid increasing mainframe software licensing costs.
· Real-time event capture onto SecureSphere’s MX Management server to deliver immediate access to audit records for forensics and analytics as well as real-time alerting on suspicious activities.
