Wave Report

The Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 2011

IBM, Imperva, And Sentrigo Lead, With Application Security, Oracle, And Fortinet Close Behind

May 6th, 2011
Noel Yuhanna, VP, Principal Analyst
Noel Yuhanna VP, Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Stephanie Balaouras , Adam Knoll

Summary

In Forrester's 147-criteria evaluation of database auditing and real-time protection vendors, we found that the market is rife with mature products. IBM, Imperva, and Sentrigo lead the pack because of their strong user activity auditing, policy management, real-time protection, and application support capabilities as well as their forward-thinking strategies. Application Security, Oracle, and Fortinet are Strong Performers; their products have reporting, real-time detection and protection, and user-activity auditing capabilities that are slightly weaker than capabilities of the Leaders' offerings. However, all of the products we evaluated are mature database auditing and real-time protection solutions. Given this, rather than basing their choice of database auditing and real-time protection product on traditional auditing functions, application development and delivery professionals should base their decision on the more cutting-edge functionality, such as real-time attack activity blocking, privileged-user monitoring, drilldown analytics, and centralization repository.

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