GreenSQL Unified Database Security solution

We are proud to announce the release of GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light, our first commercial Unified Database Security solutions, designed to provide all organizations – from small and medium businesses all the way to large enterprises – robust database security at an affordable price.
 
“Commercial Unified Database Security solutions” is a mouthful. Let’s look at what that means.
For us, commercial has several meanings. First, we have designed GreenSQL Pro for commercial organizations; second, we charge for it; and third, unlike our open source code, it does not come “as is” and its code is not open for tinkering.
How about unified? To be unified, something must first have parts. GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light include many aspects of database security within them, all contributing to their primary mission: securing databases. We’ll be discussing some of those aspects below.
And of course, there’s database. GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light protect MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server. As time goes on, we will undoubtedly expand the number of databases that they guard.
Unfortunately, the definition of security solution is a moving target. As long as there are black hats in the world, achieving security will require us to stay alert and responsive to new threats. We at GreenSQL stand guard on the front lines so that you, our users, can go about your businesses in a less stressful and more productive environment. GreenSQL Light and GreenSQL Pro are security solutions that are simple to implement, effective in protecting your business information assets and will not break your budget.
Press Release on GreenSQL's New Commercial Products
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The Cost of Database Breaches
Our groundbreaking news is even more significant in the context of the following numbers.
Studies by Verizon and the Ponemon Institute show that in 2008, 285 million records were breached at an average $202 per record cost. But according to a more recent Symantec study, when the records contained personally identifiable information, the cost soared to an astounding $11,000 per record!
With the cost of database breaches reaching such astronomical heights, securing databases has become essential for ensuring business survival.
GreenSQL Pro and Light Protect Microsoft SQL Server
Today, we are proud to announce that GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light are able to secure Microsoft SQL Server databases from both accidental and malicious intrusions. This is a major milestone in our mission to protect the world’s databases from SQL injection attacks.
Microsoft SQL Server’s current market share stands at more than 20%. It has made major inroads into small companies and into departments of larger ones. GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light provide cost-effective solutions to legislative compliance and security needs.
Some GreenSQL Pro Features and Benefits
GreenSQL Pro has many excellent features – too many, in fact, to detail completely here. However, we would like to draw your attention to the following four.
Virtual patching. Virtual patching is a simple but powerful feature that immediately protects organization database servers against database application exploits even before patches are installed.
Because patch installation sometimes involves taking a database or server down for a period of time, organizations may choose to risk breach rather than incur downtime, collecting patches and installing them as a group on a monthly, quarterly, or even annual basis.
Virtual patching enables organizations to eliminate the risk in this timing decision! As soon as we get the patch from the responsible party, we update the GreenSQL Pro database firewall with the signature of the specific exploit and we block it. Our clients’ copies of GreenSQL Pro are updated automatically without affecting their operations and their databases are immediately protected.
Caching. By recognizing query recurrence within various timeframes, GreenSQL’s proprietary, patented caching algorithm improves database performance in all configurations. In those that use many resources, such as audit functionality or reporting, it reduces latency; in others, it can actually improve database performance.
Auditing. GreenSQL Pro’s audit function has a finer granularity than even the leading enterprise level security leaders. It can differentiate between the last action and the update action.
Policy-based firewall. GreenSQL Pro is a policy–based firewall at a very deep level. For each of the three modes – learning mode, risk-based IDS/IPS mode, and firewall mode – a protection profile can be created by type of database, for a specific database (or many), and/or by table (or many). In addition, these policies can be enforced for any groups defined on a server.
Download GreenSQL Products Now
We are offering this comprehensive package of features for GreenSQL Light at an extremely affordable $147 per server per month for those making an annual commitment. A perpetual license for GreenSQL Pro can be purchased for only $3,997 per server.
And please note that a single instance of GreenSQL Pro installed as an appliance can secure multiple databases simultaneously. As you can see, we have made GreenSQL Pro not only effective, but very affordable.
A Thank You to Our Early Open Source Adopters
GreenSQL Pro was built on the foundation of our open source GreenSQL product. Our new product exists in great measure because you and tens of thousands of others adopted GreenSQL software for protecting your own databases and stuck with us through our growing pains. We would like you to reap the rewards of your belief in us.
As a special thank you for your thoughtful contributions, suggestions and ideas, we are offering you, our open source users, the opportunity to move to GreenSQL Pro & get a FREE 3 month extension to your GreenSQL Pro license. For your special benefit, contact us here.
 
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Thanks,

The GreenSQL Team
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