McAfee has unveiled a comprehensive database security offering that protects business-critical databases without impacting performance and availability.
The new security offering is based on the Security Connected initiative launched in October 2010, which involves protecting a company’s important data assets from network to server to the database itself.
McAfee said that through this offering, data is protected in every state including: in motion, at rest, and in use — via access controls, network security, server security, data protection and encryption.
The new offering includes McAfee’s Vulnerability Manager for databases which automatically discovers all databases on the network, collects a full inventory of configuration details, determines if the latest patches have been applied and scans for vulnerabilities.
In addition, the offering provides comprehensive protection to databases through network firewall and intrusion prevention, which enable organisations to discover, control, and analyse traffic and protect new and existing databases by allowing only the appropriate users and applications to access the databases, said the company.
The offering also ensures that the server environment, whether physical or virtual, is protected without impact to database throughput via application whitelisting and host intrusion prevention.
McAfee said that the offering also provides third layer of defense on the data itself, whether at rest or in use through Data Loss Prevention (DLP) which helps ensure data integrity and utilises policy to prevent improper transmission of critical data.
McAfee risk and compliance senior vice-president and general manager Stuart McClure said the company designed a comprehensive security offering to protect even the most dynamic of database environments.
