Mantra Data Auditing and Protection for Compliance, Security and Data Assurance

A new class of network based auditing and protection solution, Mantra provides real-time auditing, monitoring, reporting and theft detection for critical data assets. Mantra is the easiest data auditing solution to install, configure, deploy and use. It audits activity across all major databases, file systems, packaged applications and operating systems such as UNIX, Linux, Windows and Z/OS.

A passive, non-inline appliance that’s transparent to your existing data infrastructure, Mantra plugs into to your network and has no performance impact on applications, systems or processes. Mantra inspects a mirror of your traffic over the network in real-time. Patent-pending Behavioral Fingerprinting® technology identifies suspicious behavior in real-time and generates alerts to prevent unauthorized user activity. Mantra can also generate a broad range of pre-built and custom reports to provide insight into critical activity, to analyze events or forensically identify root causes of issues.

Mantra reduces business risk and lowers IT costs by enabling the highest level of compliance assurance, data protection and data privacy. Advantages include:

Automated Discovery – Data discovery begins operating as soon as the Mantra appliance is connected to the network segment. During data discovery, Mantra scans all traffic and automatically discovers databases and file shares as well as all the activity taking place on these systems. In just hours or minutes Mantra provides detailed insight into access activity on your network and can automatically creates policies from the discovery reports enabling rapid deployment of targeted auditing.

Unmatched Scalability – Mantra is the fastest data auditing and protection solution on the market today and scales to meet the needs of even the largest global enterprise without affecting the performance of data servers or associated applications. A transparent network appliance, Mantra network monitoring requires local set-up only—no reconfiguration on production data servers, software, network or applications. Mantra appliances can be inserted as needed anywhere in the network and managed from centralized or distributed dashboards. A single Mantra appliance can monitor a number of databases and file servers and multiple appliances can be deployed across one or more data centers.

Superior Performance – A custom built fast-path monitoring stack was architected to meet the extreme speed and performance requirements of large enterprise data centers. Mantra supports over 50k SQL audited transactions per second without dropping packets. And the full context of each event is recorded in the secure, tamper proof event database for reporting.

Real-time Insight – A full range of reports are provided on all the activity audited by Mantra. The reports include discovery, summary, pre-built and custom. In real-time, users can see what data was discovered and what PCI and SOX policies are capturing as well as access a variety of pre-built reports such as failed logons, schema changes, DDL activity and privilege escalations. Mantra’s patent pending Behavioral Fingerprinting® capabilities catch anomalous user behavior, including privileged user behavior, in real time.

Broadest Coverage – Modular design incorporates a variety of structured and unstructured data server specific adaptors. Mantra supports simultaneous data auditing across the four major databases—Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 (both open systems and mainframes), and Sybase— and Windows-based file servers.

Three-way Auditing -- The Mantra network-based auditing solution includes two options for local auditing: agent-based E-TAP local audit and agent-less local audit. For both E-TAP and agent-less local auditing, Mantra collects audit data from DBMS systems in a highly optimized manner and consolidates this data with events gathered from the network into a single audit repository--enabling uniform compliance reporting and fine-grained forensic event correlation, which is critical for privileged user monitoring.

Ease of Use -- Mantra’s patented rules-based policy language is English-like and powerful in its ability to quickly and efficiently create audit policies for simple as well as complex rules. An intuitive graphical interface provides easy access to Mantra configuration, policy creation, alerts, reports and workflow.

Mantra captures all traffic that occurs over the network, plus any commands that are executed locally directly on the data server. Mantra is also able to capture monitoring and audit information even when data is encrypted or when wireline encryption is used.

For more information contact Tizor at 800-231-8224