Tizor Announces Mantra 5.9 Database Auditing for Faster, Easier Automation of Database Compliance & Security

MAYNARD, MA, Mar 31 (MARKET WIRE) --
Tizor Systems, the leading provider of enterprise database auditing and
protection
solutions, today announced Mantra version 5.9 with advanced features for
usability, scalability and compliance coverage. New features include automated
policy creation for faster time to deployment; advanced analytics for mitigating
data risk in real time; and an enhanced user interface for the most intuitive,
easy to use solution for business, compliance and technical users.

Mantra 5.9 installs and deploys faster than other solutions and policies are
easier to generate and maintain, contributing to a lower total cost of
ownership. With Mantra's compliance templates and Policy Wizard, companies can
rapidly address database security, internal data governance and a wide range
of external compliance requirements and industry standards such as SOX,
GLBA, FFIEC and PCI.

Mantra Features Reduce the Cost of Compliance

Mantra is the first product designed specifically for high-performance
database monitoring
and auditing. Unlike firewall-based solutions, Mantra's architecture balances
sophisticatedpolicy filtering, analytics and reporting capabilities with an
intuitive user
interface and policy language. This functionality enables rapid deployment
across relational databases and data stored on file shares. Mantra's innovations
include:

-- Behavioral Fingerprinting(R) -- Mantra automatically identifies
suspicious behavior in real time, eliminating the need for complex baseline
policies which generate volumes of false positives.
-- 3-Way Auditing -- Mantra is the only product to support all three
modes of database auditing: network, agent and agent-less. Companies can
choose the approach that works best for their environment.
-- Scalability -- Mantra is the most scalable as well as the fastest
solution on the market and can support the largest data centers.
-- Content Scanning -- Mantra scans and locates any type of sensitive or
regulated data and includes in-the-box scanning policies for locating
cardholder numbers from all of the major credit card companies including
Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card and American Express.
-- Unstructured data -- Mantra is the first product to provide a unified
auditing solution for monitoring and auditing unstructured data.

New Mantra 5.9 highlights:

-- User Interface (UI) enhancements -- With its enhanced UI design and
functionality, Mantra is now even easier to use and maintain enabling "Day
One Productivity."
-- Policy Creation Wizard -- Mantra's Policy Wizard walks the user
through a set of steps to define and automatically deploy compliance and
security policies in minutes.
-- Change Management Wizard -- Using this tool, enterprises can
automatically monitor all database changes that would be integrated and
reconciled with enterprise change management systems to ensure only
approved changes are made to the database.
-- Global Policy Management -- Mantra can now automatically create global
policies that define rules and activity across all policies for greater
management flexibility.
-- Expanded Analytics Performance -- Mantra's Behavioral Fingerprinting
can now scale to support the largest datacenters to prevent data breaches
in real time.
-- Enhanced Hardware Platform -- The Mantra appliance has been enhanced
to provide additional options for connectivity to multiple network-
switches.
-- Software Collectors -- Mantra E-TAP Agents can now be used to collect
local and network traffic offering a simple and cost effective solution for
auditing branch offices or remote sites where an appliance cannot be
deployed.

Market and Tizor Momentum

Tizor continues to experience rapid growth, expanding its customer base by
400% in the last year including very large deployments in enterprise data
centers. Market demand for data discovery led to the creation of the Tizor
Discovery Service, launched earlier this year, which pinpoints the
locationof sensitive data, including PCI cardholder data, and provides a
detailed
assessment of a company's actual data practices -- essential for
addressingrisk to critical data assets.

According to the February 2008 Forrester report "The State of Enterprise
ITSecurity Adoption: 2007" by Jonathan Penn which surveyed over 1000
decisionmakers at North American and European enterprises, 82% of the
respondents said that
"protection of customer data" is an important business objective in the next 12
months (survey fielded duringQ3 2007).

Gartner Research "DAM Technology Provides Monitoring and Analytics with Less
Overhead," by Mark Nicolett and Jeffrey Wheatman, November 20, 2007, states
that "auditors and security teams should evaluate DAM technologies to identify
applicability in their enterprises to enhance overall risk management and
achieve data governance goals." Moreover, "DAM is a crucial capability because
organizations typically store sensitive, business-critical information in their
DBMSs." The research goes on to provide recommendations including "Implement
DAM functionality to mitigate the high levels of risk resulting from database
vulnerabilities and to address audit findings in such areas as database
segregation of duties (SOD) and change management and use DAM technology when
there is a need for granular monitoring or the overhead of database audit
functions is unacceptable."

"The feedback from customers and prospects has been remarkably
consistent,"stated Joel Rosen, president and CEO of Tizor. "Customers want to
save money
by automating database monitoring and they want it to be as simple as
possible. They expect rapid time-to-value and they tell us that Mantra deploys
faster, deploys more easily and scales more efficiently than any solution
they've evaluated. We expect Mantra 5.9 to expand our lead in the areas of
usability, manageability and scalability enabling companies to quickly meet
compliance and data security requirements while significantly reducing
operational
costs."

Availability

Mantra 5.9 will be generally available in Q2 of 2008.

About Tizor

Tizor provides the world's largest companies with the only enterprise
database
auditing and protection solutions capable of monitoring, reporting and alerting
on
all critical data activity across the enterprise data center -- databases,
file servers and mainframe applications. Tizor's global enterprise customers
include financial institutions, insurance companies, retailers, manufacturers,
healthcare providers and airlines, among others. These companies rely on Tizor's
Mantra to protect critical data assets, detect data breaches and provide
data-related compliance, including SOX and PCI.

Headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, Tizor is a member of IBM's Data
Governance Council and the PCI Vendor Alliance. Visit Tizor's Website at
http://www.tizor.com or data auditing blog at http://blog.tizor.com.

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