Ambeo Announces Data Access Auditing Solution to Ensure Compliance with Data Privacy Regulations
Companies now able go beyond internal controls and monitor data access to ensure privacy

Colorado Springs, CO – June 18, 2004
Ambeo, a leading provider of innovative data usage tracking and performance management software, today announced the availability of its Data Access Auditing solution, to provide data privacy assurance by auditing how users actually interact with data. With this solution, IT management can gain the visibility and understanding of who is accessing their data to assure data privacy, regulatory compliance and proactive manage database performance management.

With data privacy laws more stringent than ever before, companies today must be concerned with preserving data privacy to comply with government regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, or Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Not only are internal controls required, but companies must also carefully audit and document access to data. Prevention, via passwords and access controls, is the first step to ensuring data access is given to only those authorized. However, companies must be alerted to and aware of situations when safeguards are violated.

With Ambeo’s Data Access Auditing, companies can watch every access to all sensitive data, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Data Access Auditing provides a simple-to-use record of who is accessing data, when, by what program, from what location, and if the user is authorized. In order to quickly highlight unauthorized use of data, Ambeo allows for a mechanism to bring only the "unusual" accesses to the attention of those responsible for ensuring data privacy.

“Unlike other solutions, Ambeo provides comprehensive data access auditing by listening to all conversations between the clients and the actual databases as opposed to auditing from the client or from the database itself,” explained President and CTO, Ken Richardson. “ Auditing from client database access tools requires that all access to data come from only those tools, a highly unlikely situation. Auditing in the database provides inconsistent and insufficient auditing results across differing databases and degrades database and application performance."

Ambeo provides data access auditing with support for Oracle, Teradata, UDB, Informix, Sybase and MS SQL Server, complete coverage of every data access, a high quality implementation for complex data streams and complex SQL, storage of results in standard database tables and high performance with zero overhead or impact on performance of the databases. Keeping Data Private (And Knowing It), an Ambeo solution white paper, can be found at here...


About Ambeo
Since 1997, Ambeo's solutions have provided database auditing, user access monitoring and data usage management to Fortune 1000 companies with some of the largest database environments in the world. Ambeo's True Zero Overhead™ solutions provide information about how users actually interact with data. Using this information, Compliance, Security and IT management gain the visibility and understanding required to confirm regulatory compliance, protect data privacy, reduce risk of unauthorized data access, proactively manage data environments, maximize database investments, improve performance and assure end-user satisfaction.


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For more information contact:
Deborah Henken
Highland Team
Phone: 650-224-9295
Email: dhenken@highlandteam.com