Tizor and Ntirety Partnership to Offer Managed Security Service for Database Auditing and Monitoring

January 18, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Technology News
MAYNARD, Mass.— Tizor Systems, the leading provider of enterprise data auditing and protection solutions for the data center, today announces that it has entered into a partnership with Ntirety™, the Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database administration experts. As part of this partnership, Ntirety will use Tizor’s Mantra intelligent data auditing and protection product as the core technology for a new managed security service (MSS) solution. This new managed service will provide Ntirety customers with compliance assurance, data monitoring and information theft detection by monitoring, auditing and reporting on all critical database activity, including privileged user activity, in real time.

Ntirety provides a comprehensive set of managed database security services for customers who demand the confidence of knowing that their databases are under constant watch by a team of database experts. Ntirety’s database services enable companies to reduce administration costs and deploy valuable IT resources to other initiatives while increasing the level of database security for their customers.

The Tizor agreement enables Ntirety to expand its services to include:

* 24x7 real-time database auditing and monitoring
* 24x7 alert and event escalation
* Advanced analytics for database theft detection
* SOX and PCI compliance templates
* Management and auditor reports
* Forensic database analysis services

This new MSS model will enable organizations to better protect their critical data assets while satisfying a variety of compliance mandates, including Sarbanes-Oxley and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. Utilizing Mantra, Ntirety customers will benefit from real-time database monitoring driven by advanced analytics, including Tizor’s patent-pending Behavioral Fingerprinting® technology and comprehensive compliance reports that include reporting on privileged-user activity – a key criteria for meeting the data auditing and reporting requirements of data governance, data assurance and compliance regulations.

“The need for monitoring and reporting on critical database activity has grown,” said Michael Corey, founder and CEO of Ntirety. “By partnering with Tizor, we can offer a high-value solution that cost-effectively addresses our customers’ needs in the areas of data protection and compliance. This partnership allows our customers to track all users, including Ntirety database administrators, to provide them with further confidence that their critical data assets are secure.”

"Data auditing has become a strategic imperative and many enterprises are increasingly relying on the managed service model to provide expertise and operational efficiencies,” said Joel Rosen, president and CEO of Tizor. "This partnership bridges these needs and provides a comprehensive monitoring solution, combined with the technical and operational expertise to extend the benefits of Mantra to enterprises that choose an MSSP approach to managing and protecting their critical data assets."

Ntirety customers will be able to leverage the benefits of this partnership starting February 1, 2007. For additional details about the partnership, please contact Michael Corey at Ntirety, at 617-514-1736.

About Tizor

Tizor provides the world’s largest companies with the only enterprise data auditing and protection solutions capable of monitoring and reporting on all critical data activity across the enterprise data center – databases, file servers, and mainframe applications – for compliance assurance, data protection and theft detection. Tizor’s Mantra solutions enable the highest level of compliance assurance, data security and privacy by providing a complete life-cycle of intelligent data auditing capabilities including audit reporting, theft detection, alerting and data protection that deliver real-time insight into and control over user activity affecting critical data assets. Founded by former Bell Labs researchers and headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, Tizor is venture financed and led by industry veterans in networking, security, and software and systems management. More information on Tizor can be found at http://www.tizor.com/.

About Ntirety

Ntirety helps companies overcome complex database administration issues and to relieve the costly burden of monitoring and administering Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server mission-critical databases. Ntirety brings its team of seasoned, world-class database administrators to customers who are looking to cut costs and greatly improve service levels. Ntirety’s chief executive officer Michael Corey is a recognized industry expert on the Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms, having published 13 books about the technologies and speaking before many industry forums. Corey is the past president of the International Oracle Users Group and was founder of and is actively involved in numerous Oracle associations and industry user groups. More information about Ntirety can be found at http://www.ntirety.com/