The Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., May 6, 2011.

InfoSphere Guardium Recognized as A Leader With #1 Rankings in Market Presence, Strategy and Current Offering
Database auditing has become critical to all enterprises for dealing with various regulatory compliance and security requirements. In addition, preventing attacks and unauthorized access to sensitive data by database administrators and other privileged users has become vital to all organizations.

In this comprehensive assessment incorporating 147 criteria, Forrester rated IBM with #1 scores in all 3 top categories: Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence. IBM also achieved (among) the top ranking in all 16 high-level categories that were scored, including the highest possible scores in the following 7 categories:

• Audit policies
• Auditing repository
• Corporate strategy
• Installed base
• Services
• Employees
• Technology partners

According to Forrester, "IBM InfoSphere Guardium continues to demonstrate its leadership in supporting very large heterogeneous environments, delivering high performance and scalability, simplifying administration, and performing real-time database protection.”

The Forrester Wave™: Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection, Q2 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., May 6, 2011.