IBM Guardium Data Protection Fundamentals

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection (Guardium) supports a zero trust approach to security. It discovers andclassifies sensitive data from across an enterprise, providing real time data activity monitoring and advanced userbehavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.

Guardium provides a broad range of data security and protection capabilities that can protect sensitive and regulateddata across environments and platforms. This course provides the foundational level processes, procedures, andpractices necessary to configure Guardium to monitor and protect sensitive data. Hands-on exercises reinforce theskills learned.

*Note: this course is based upon IBM Security Guardium Data Protection v11.4.

• Unit 1: Guardium overview
• Unit 2: Guardium architecture
• Unit 3: Guardium user interfaces
• Unit 4: Access management
• Unit 5: Guardium groups
• Unit 6: System & data management
• Unit 7: Guardium discovery & vulnerability assessment
• Unit 8: Policy management
• Unit 9: Guardium reporting
• Unit 10: Guardium alerts
• Unit 11: Audit process automation

Before taking this course, make sure that you have the following skills:

• Working knowledge of SQL queries for IBM DB2 and other databases
• Working knowledge of NoSQL type databases
• Working knowledge of UNIX commands
• Ability to use a UNIX text editor such as vi
• Familiarity with data protection standards such as HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, and SOX

Database administrators, security administrators, security analysts, security technical architects, and professional services using Guardium.