(Source: Business Wire)Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, today announced an OEM relationship with NetIQ, a Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) market leader, that enhances NetIQ's end-to-end enterprise data compliance and security solution. As part of this relationship, NetIQ has chosen the Netezza® Mantra® technology to provide database activity monitoring and auditing for its NetIQ Change Guardian for Databases offering. By integrating Mantra database activity monitoring (DAM) appliance-based technology within NetIQ's SIEM solution, NetIQ can now provide enterprise customers unprecedented visibility and data protection.

"Netezza Mantra has been consistently recognized as an industry leading solution in terms of scalability and ease of use in the data auditing and activity monitoring space. This OEM relationship will extend the reach of Mantra as we continue to broaden the data auditing market," said Prat Moghe, general manager, Data Compliance, Netezza. "Compliance and security officers have historically struggled to gain end-to-end visibility of compliance and risk related activity across the perimeter to the datacenter. This integrated offering from NetIQ addresses this critical business requirement and provides a holistic solution that also addresses the data compliance and security needs of an enterprise."

According to Gartner, it is a best practice to "Utilize SIEM, DAM and other monitoring controls to address audit requirements for tracking activity (especially for access to regulated data types such as PII, PHI and financial information.)" 1

The NetIQ Change Guardian family incorporates Netezza Mantra technology to deliver real-time activity and change monitoring across relational databases without impacting database performance or operation. NetIQ Change Guardian for Databases:

Audits access to databases and identifies potentially suspicious behavior, enabling faster, more effective, automated responses.

Monitors and alerts on suspicious activity undertaken by privileged users.

Alerts on changes made to the database, providing protection from insiders who may purposefully weaken security or inadvertently damage a business-critical database.

Auto-recognizes sensitive information, helping to ensure that critical data is identified and properly protected.

Presents information to NetIQ Security Manager and other SIEM solutions to correlate all events that impact data security.

"Security teams are demanding solutions that protect beyond the infrastructure.