1. Find out who touched what data. . . . when . . . . from where!

2. Incur little to no system overhead

3. Detect suspicious database activity

4. Ensure legally protected data remains private

5. Substantiate effectiveness of regulatory compliance measures

6. Audit the effectiveness of security measures designed to prevent unauthorized external user access

7. Discover unauthorized uses of data by authorized internal users

8. Identify unauthorized types of access to sensitive data

9. Monitor and track all database structure and security changes

10. Gain real-time and historical insight into every database access