Audience
Database administrators, security administrators, security analysts, security technical architects, and professional services using IBM Guardium.
Prerequisites
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 v
- Familiarity with data protection standards such as HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, and SOX
Duration
3 days. Hands on.
Course Objectives
Are you getting ready to administer database security policies? Learn how to configure Guardium V10 to discover, classify, analyze, protect, and control access to sensitive data. You will learn to perform vulnerability assessment, and how to monitor data and file activity. This course also teaches you how to create reports, audits, alerts, metrics, and compliance oversight processes.
After successfully completing this course you will be able to:
- Identify the primary functions of IBM Guardium
- Apply key Guardium architecture components
- Navigate the Guardium user interface and command line interface
- Manage user access to Guardium
- Use the administration console to manage Guardium components
- Build and populate Guardium groups
- Configure policy rules that process the information gathered from database and file servers
- Use the configuration auditing system, Vulnerability Assessment application, and Database Discovery to perform data security tasks
- Create queries and reports to examine trends and gather data
- Automate compliance workflow processes
- Use file access monitoring to keep track of the files on your servers
Course Content
Unit 1: IBM Guardium: Overview
Unit 2: IBM Guardium: Architecture
Unit 3: IBM Guardium: User interface
Unit 4: IBM Guardium: Access management
Unit 5: IBM Guardium: System view and data management
Unit 6: IBM Guardium: Groups
Unit 7: IBM Guardium: Policy management
Unit 8: IBM Guardium: Auditing, vulnerability assessment, and discovery
Unit 9: IBM Guardium: Custom queries and reports
Unit 10: IBM Guardium: Compliance workflow automation
Unit 11: IBM Guardium: File activity monitoring