SB Database Security Insights

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McAfee Database Security Insights
Key Advantages
Managing the multitude of alerts, reports, and events and sometimes finding the ■■
Visualization of large amounts of
proverbial needle in a haystack is challenging. Monitoring the activity on busy database security events
enterprise databases can easily create millions of events in a short period of time, ■■
Elastic-based backend
and not all require action and not need to be looked at. Cybersecurity professionals ■■
Google-like search abilities
Customizable widgets
should not have to spend most of their time wading through events and alerts to
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Workflow management
identify those that require action. Instead, they should be able to focus on critical
security and data protection tasks. McAfee® Database Security Insights eliminates the
need to wade through millions of alerts and allows cybersecurity or data protection
professionals to visualize all events and alerts, assign appropriate workflow users
to take action, and have access to meaningful database risk gradings and highly
configurable widgets that allow for customization.
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Database Monitoring Challenges Visualizing Large Amounts of Data

Large amounts of similar or exactly the same type of Insights helps organizations visualizing the vast number
events make it very difficult to accurately assess the of database security events.
importance and risk of specific events captured. Finding
Drilling down into individual databases allows for a
the unknown within a huge number of events is difficult
detailed overview of the individual risk level, a scoring
and often flawed. Cybersecurity and data protection
system for potential vulnerabilities found, and access
specialists invest more time in finding meaningful events
distribution. In addition, it provides visibility into whether
that require action than on the actual investigation and
there is sensitive data (PII, PCI-DSS, and more) stored.
remediation itself. Creating a meaningful risk rating for
individual enterprise databases is a very manual and
labor-intense process that requires several different
resources to come together and create a common
matrix.
New Insights into Database Protection

To tackle this, organizations must invest either in
more staff or find ways to streamline and visualize the
incoming database protection data.
McAfee Database Security Insights allows cybersecurity

and data protection professionals to visualize large
amounts of database events, group results into
categories, and assign these to workflow users—all
based on a very fast, elastic-based backend display of
alert data.
Figure 1. McAfee Database Security Insights visualized application mapping.

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Figure 2. McAfee Database Security Insights—visualizing database vulnerability assessment results.
Single-Pane Database Risk Assessment Drilling down into individual databases allows for a
Insights improves the way database risk is calculated detailed overview of the individual risk level, a scoring
and reported by collecting all relevant information system for potential vulnerabilities found, and access
from McAfee Database Security, correlating these, and distribution. In addition, it gives visibility into whether
offering cybersecurity and data protection professionals there is sensitive data (PII, PCI-DSS, and more) stored.
a single view of the enterprise database estate.

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Figure 3. McAfee Database Security Insights—Database Risk overview allowing for easy identifiable risk ratings at a database level.
Figure 4. McAfee Database Security Insights—Database Risk Details give meaningful insights and detail into risk levels.

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McAfee Database Activity Monitoring McAfee Vulnerability Management for Did you know?
McAfee® Database Activity Monitoring cost effectively Databases
helps protect data from all threats by monitoring activity McAfee® Vulnerability Manager for Databases McAfee Database Security Insights
is part of your existing McAfee
locally on each database server and by alerting or automatically discovers databases on the network,
Database Security license.
terminating malicious behavior in real time, even when determines if the latest patches have been applied, and
No additional license is required.
running in virtualized or cloud computing environments. tests for vulnerabilities, such as weak passwords, default
accounts, and other common threats. In addition, it
McAfee Virtual Patching for Databases
allows for detailed data discovery scans, including PII
McAfee® Virtual Patching for Databases detects missing data, PCI-DSS data, and many more.
patches, applies vulnerability-specific countermeasures,
and fixes misconfigurations (via McAfee virtual patching Next Steps
technology) found by vulnerability scans to improve the For more information, visit us at: https://www.mcafee.
security posture of databases immediately—without any com/us/products/database-security/index.aspx.
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McAfee Database Security Insights

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Database Monitoring Challenges Visualizing Large Amounts of Data

New Insights into Database Protection

McAfee Database Security Insights allows cybersecurity

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Figure 2. McAfee Database Security Insights—visualizing database vulnerability assessment results.

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