Netezza Teams with NetIQ to Provide a Comprehensive Enterprise Data Compliance & Security Solution

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. The industry needs a solution that also helps secure corporate data by detecting abnormal behavior before it results in significant breaches,” commented Geoff Webb, senior manager of Product Marketing at NetIQ. “The solution uniquely fulfills both requirements, providing an extension to the security and event correlation that customers need to identify threats and minimize their impact.”

About Netezza Mantra

The Netezza Mantra appliance with its patent-pending technology provides all the tenets for comprehensive enterprise data auditing. For data owners, compliance and security officers, Netezza Mantra provides:

• Critical data discovery;
• Continuous monitoring and auditing access to critical data;
• Analysis, detection and protection against any non-compliance or data theft; and
• Ready-to-use data compliance reports for SOX, PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, GLBA and many other popular regulatory requirements.

For more information on the Netezza Mantra appliance, visit http://datacompliance.netezza.com. For more information on data auditing and compliance requirements, visit http://datacompliance.netezza.com/data_auditing_blog.

About NetIQ

NetIQ, an Attachmate business, is a global leader in systems and security management. With more than 12,000 customers in over 60 countries, NetIQ solutions maximize technology investments and enable IT process improvements to achieve measurable cost savings. For more information on NetIQ’s portfolio of award-winning products for IT Process Automation, Systems Management, Security Management, Configuration Audit and Control, Enterprise Administration and Unified Communications Management, visit www.netiq.com.

About Netezza Corporation

Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics across an extended enterprise. Netezza’s technology enables organizations to process enormous amounts of captured data at exceptional speed, providing a significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s data-intensive industries, including digital media, energy, financial services, government, health and life sciences, retail and telecommunications. Netezza is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and has offices in Northern Virginia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Poland, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

Netezza®, Mantra® and the Netezza logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Netezza Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

¹ Gartner, Inc. Typical Elements of an Enterprise Data Security Program, Eric Ouellet, Jeffrey Wheatman, August 27, 2009