Database Activity Monitoring

GreenSQL database activity monitoring keeps you on top of security threats, malicious software and exploits, threats from company insiders and more. It keeps you informed of suspicious transactions in real time, allowing you to take immediate action to maintain database security. And it documents the steps you've taken to ensure your data's security for regulators.

The many faces of security threats

Today, security threats come from many directions. Frequent reports in the press tell of criminals harvesting credit cards numbers by breaking into databases. Company insiders with both the knowledge and access to get around existing security features can pose an equally dangerous, but not as frequently publicized, threat.

Although credit card numbers are certainly desirable, social security numbers, addresses, and other valuable information stolen from inadequately protected databases are now often a target. With such data in hand, criminals can pose as your customers in a modern day crime known as identity theft. In this climate of increasing vulnerability, government has stepped in to demand that those who collect and store sensitive information take steps to protect it. Demonstrating compliance with regulations such as SOX, PCI DSS, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act could be difficult and expensive until GreenSQL Pro security software arrived on the scene.

Non-stop SQL server monitoring

Today business is a global 24/7 activity and security procedures have to be deployed in the same manner. Responding long after the fact to reports of attempted security breaches is no longer sufficient to protect valuable data. Government authorities insist that businesses take their stewardship responsibilities seriously and demonstrate due diligence in protecting the sensitive personal data that they hold.

GreenSQL Pro detects the use of unauthorized commands by authorized users and/or intruders. These may be database administrator commands, privileged, disclosure, or other powerful commands you have chosen to make visible. It monitors activity in both directions, informing you of potential breaches in the security of your database, whether the threat is an external malicious SQL injection attack underway or an attempt to export sensitive information by an insider.

Database security audit

GreenSQL Pro lets you understand how your data is being used at every moment. From source IPs and applications through the server or group of servers all the way to the database and down to the record level, GreenSQL database activity monitoring monitors, audits and reports on sensitive data usage in your organization.

From the moment it is installed, GreenSQL Pro actively monitors all incoming and outgoing activity to the databases for which it serves as a proxy. It validates SQL queries before submitting them to the SQL database for execution. It logs all database activity and produces entitlement reports that satisfy audit requirements.

Simple tools

GreenSQL Pro provides a web-based console to monitor and validate any command issued to the database. The graphical user interface is easy to learn and easy to use. The database monitoring tools detect and actively prevent SQL injection attacks, while keeping you informed as things happen.

Security policy definition

With this knowledge in hand, you can design access control policies that provide a separation of duties, policies that permit access to data at the level needed – and no more. Or, if you prefer, you can let GreenSQL Pro generate a full set of security policies for you automatically. The rules will reflect the activity on each database independently.

Immediate enforcement

As soon as a security policy is defined, it is actively enforced. Any attempt to violate the policy is immediately detected and reported. That's an important point. In security, instant response is critical.

Optional alerts

You can have GreenSQL database activity monitoring send an alert about an attempted policy violation directly to your e-mail. The alert includes the user's IP address and contact information. One friendly phone call later and you've nipped a potential security problem in the bud.

A window into SQL server activity

Of course, not every such violation is intended to break into your data. Perhaps a programmer needs to change the structure of a table, or an accountant needs to update some bank account details. Either way, you've just discovered a flaw in your security policy that is undercutting employee productivity and with this valuable information; you can help your organization flourish.

Advanced capabilites

GreenSQL database activity monitoring:

• Studies your actual data usage and automatically suggests security rules
• Allows you to override its suggested rules and define your own
• Enforces separation of duties
• Exposes the use of database administrator commands, privileged, disclosure, and other unauthorized commands by authorized users and/or intruders
• Monitors, logs, audits and reports on all database usage and network activity
• Provides an easy-to-use console to monitor and validate any command issued to the database
• Sends real-time email alerts of defined events such as attempted policy violations

This comprehensive set of functions in GreenSQL database activity monitoring gives you the real-time knowledge and tools to actively maintain your database security.