Organizations are aggressively turning to IT to help automate their business processes and cut costs. As part of this effort, they are digitizing more and more of their enterprise assets. These assets include confidential employee information, financial statements, legal documents, intellectual property, electronic medical records and more. Protecting these assets is critical to the success of the business. That’s why IT security and privacy remain the top concern for CIOs.

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Today organizations rely on too much on manual intervention which is no match against very sophisticated predators and the vast amount of space that needs to be protected. Increasingly, CIOs are relying on automated security appliances and intrusion detection systems than can secure access to the network and detect security breaches. Leading Security Appliance and Intrusion Detection System vendors such as Enterasys, Sandstorm and SourceFire have selected MySQL to help network mangers secure their infrastructure. These products help organizations:

• Secure access to protect network computers and devices from exploitation
• Uncover security vulnerabilities across your network before attacks occur
• Monitor network traffic for malicious behavior in real-time
• Protect against trojans, port scans, buffer overflows and denial of service attacks
• Determine if confidential information has been compromised
• Identify what information and files have been attacked or distributed out of the organization via email or FTP

Existing network monitoring and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have difficulty providing all the information that network managers need to pinpoint network problems and investigate security breaches. MySQL enables ISVs and OEMs to overcome the limitations by delivering:

• High-performance to handle the high volume demands of the world’s largest networks with multi-terabyte disk arrays. For example, Sandstrom NetIntercept uses MySQL to capture and archive data from over 1 million TCP connections to find suspicion patterns in network packets.
• Easy to use, zero administration database so that customers can use network security products out of the box and be immediately productive. Customers can’t afford to wait weeks to get their network security strategy implemented. Plus, Small & Medium Businesses (SMBs) can’t afford the overhead of a database administrator.
• Cost-effective so ISVs/OEMs can target their network security solution to a wide range of customers. MySQL provides the power for OEMs/ISVs to deliver large enterprise solutions. And MySQL is cost-effective for OEMs/ISVs to target price-sensitive SMBs.
• High Reliability so that network managers can maintain high service levels for their organization. Through continuous monitoring, network security problems can be detected before they disrupt the company’s day to day work.

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