Idera Announce EMEA Launch of Auditing and Compliance Solution for Microsoft SQL Server
Idera, a leading provider of management and administration solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, announced the general availability of Version 1.2 of its SQL compliance manager product in the Europe, Middle East and African (EMEA) Markets. SQL compliance manager™ Provides Powerful Real-Time Auditing, Continuous Compliance, Reporting and Forensics Capabilities. SQL compliance manager is distributed in EMEA by SQLTools.
London, England (PRWEB) December 5, 2005 -- Idera, a leading provider of management and administration solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, announced the general availability of Version 1.2 of its SQL compliance manager product in the Europe, Middle East and African (EMEA) Markets. SQL compliance manager is distributed in EMEA by SQLTools.
Designed in partnership with major auditing firms and leading security and audit experts, SQL compliance manager provides real-time auditing and continuous compliance for SQL Server databases, enabling organisations to meet internal and external audit standards such as BASEL II, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA and HIPAA.
“With the increasing deployment of SQL Server databases to hold mission-critical data, auditing and compliance have become critical issues”, said Mike Kelly, Partner at Ernst and Young LLP. “Organisations with large SQL Server infrastructures need a solution that is easy to deploy, easy to manage and that captures all the audit data required to ensure that compliance can be assessed on an ongoing basis”.
Key benefits provided by SQL compliance manager include:
Continuous Compliance — SQL compliance manager goes beyond traditional auditing approaches by providing real-time monitoring and auditing of all data access, updates, data structure modifications and changes to security permissions. The captured audit data is stored in a central repository for reporting, querying and forensic analysis. This enables compliance to be an on-going activity, dramatically reducing the time, effort and cost of formal audits.
Self-auditing — SQL compliance manager has been engineered to provide a trusted, immutable source of audit data. This significantly reduces the time required for audit data collection and verification. SQL compliance manager’s powerful self-auditing features ensure that users are alerted to any attempts to change audit data collection policies or attempts to tamper with the contents of the audit data repository.
Powerful reporting and analytics — SQL compliance manager provides ‘out of the box’ auditing and compliance reports. These reports were developed in conjunction with industry experts in security, compliance and auditing policies, such as Ernst and Young and Information Shield Inc. All reports may be easily customised, plus the user friendly schema of the audit data repository enables rapid development of ad-hoc queries and reports for forensic analysis.
Continental Airlines, a major international air carrier, has deployed SQL compliance manager to audit its aircraft maintenance databases. "Ensuring compliance with our internal audit standards and provides a way to model our compliance after FAA regulations which is critical to operations," said Patrick Rios, Senior Planner, Technical Operations Division at Continental Airlines. "SQL compliance manager ensures that we have a complete audit trail of all access and updates to our aircraft maintenance data, and makes it easy for us to provide comprehensive compliance reports. It also helps us rapidly identify problems, improves our processes, and makes us more efficient."
Key features provided by SQL compliance manager include:
Low overhead, guaranteed, data collection: A lite agent – the SQL compliance agent™ monitors SQL Server transaction data streams in real-time without using high overhead approaches such as triggers, profiling, ‘heavy’ tracing or log scraping. To optimise network traffic, data collected by the agent can be streamed to the repository in real-time or sent in batches as required
Rapid deployment and ease of management: A central enterprise management console enables rapid definition of audit policies and configuration and deployment of SQL compliance agents. All monitoring of agent activity and the audit data stream can then be done in real time from this central console, making it easy to manage and track audit activity over a large number of servers.
Central repository of audit data: A central repository houses all audit data gathered. A user-friendly repository schema enables easy development of queries and custom reports.
Fault tolerant architecture: SQL compliance manager has been architected to be highly fault-tolerant to ensure that auditing continues even in the event of network outages and to enable effective operation in WAN environments.
"SQL compliance manager provides the next generation audit and compliance solution for SQL Server" said Rick Pleczko, president and CEO at Idera. "We have tapped into the knowledge and expertise of a wide range of industry experts – including auditing and compliance professionals as well as SQL Server DBAs at Fortune 500 companies. This has enabled us to build a powerful and comprehensive SQL Server auditing solution that will help companies dramatically ease the burden of compliance with internal and external audit standards."
Pricing and Availability
SQL compliance manager is available now and priced at £840 per SQL Server instance. An EMEA introductory price of £560 per SQL Server instance is available until January 31st 2006. Please contact SQLtools or one of their partners for Euro pricing.
About Idera
Idera delivers a new generation of tools for managing and administering the world's fastest growing database management system – Microsoft SQL Server. Battle-proven and engineered for the enterprise, Idera’s solutions include: Backup and Recovery, Auditing and Continuous Compliance, Web-based Administration, Job Management, Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics, Configuration Management, and Data Migration and Transformation. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Idera’s products are sold and supported directly and via authorised resellers and distributors around the globe. For more information, please visit www.idera.com.
About SQLtools
SQLtools, a division of AK Computer Services, are the master distributors for Idera products in the EMEA market. For more information, to purchase Idera products or to become a SQLtools reseller, please visit www.sqltools-emea.com .
Idera – a division of BBS Technologies, Inc. SQL compliance manager, Idera and the Idera logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of BBS Technologies, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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