Protegrity, a provider of data security management services, has released version 4.6 of its Defiance Security Software Suite.

Protegrity said that the Defiance Security Software Suite 4.6 provides Teradata customers with deployments across industries including retail, financial services, travel, and tourism with advances in data protection.

Protegrity also said that Teradata customers can use new and enhanced policy management functionality to speed deployment and ease management across large, multi-node environments. New file-based audit log collection functionality is expected to extend customer control over security event auditing and reporting and complement existing streaming log file collection.

Since 2005, Teradata, a provider of enterprise data warehousing services, and Protegrity have been global partners in the delivery of enterprise level data protection and management services that deliver database security to Teradata customers, according to Protegrity.

Raul Ortega, vice president of product management at Protegrity, said: Flexible, cost effective data protection options are an absolute requirement for large scale enterprises, especially in light of the current economic environment. The new features and functionality in Defiance Security Suite 4.6 represent Protegrity’s continuing commitment to providing solutions that meet the needs of customers by maximizing enterprise data security within constrained IT budgets.