National Bank Of Kuwait Leverages Solution To Prevent Unauthorized Database Changes By 'Super Users'
Guardium, a provider of database security, and StarLink, Middle East provider of security and compliance solutions, recently announced that the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has successfully implemented Guardium’s enterprise security platform to continuously monitor all database transactions in real-time, including actions by “super users” such as database and system administrators, development and testing staff, and other privileged users, including outsourced teams.
According to a recent survey published by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and sponsored by Oracle, two-thirds of organizations don’t have safeguards in place to prevent a database administrator from accidentally dropping a table or unintentionally causing harm to critical application databases -- and most are unable to even detect such breaches or incidents. This is both a serious data governance issue and a regulatory compliance issue for most firms, especially in financial services.
“We chose Guardium because they have become the ‘gold standard’ for database security and monitoring,” said Tamer Gamali, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), National Bank of Kuwait. “We needed tighter internal controls over our critical Oracle- and Microsoft SQL Server-based financial systems. We considered solutions based on native database auditing, but Guardium gives us automated, real-time security alerts along with full visibility into all transactions without impacting database performance. It also provides a scalable, cross-DBMS audit architecture for handling