Sentrigo Announces Hedgehog Enterprise v3.5 to Speed Customer Deployments

New Application Mapping Capabilities Assist in Quickly Implementing Custom
Security Policies
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Sentrigo, Inc., the innovator in database security software, today announcedthe
latest version of its flagship product, the Hedgehog Enterprise database
activity monitoring and intrusion prevention solution, for leading database
management systems. The new version incorporates features that allow for easier
and faster deployment of highly customized security and audit policies aimed at
protecting sensitive information so that organizations can meet their risk and
compliance requirements.

The most significant enhancement being introduced in this new release of
Hedgehog Enterprise is Application Mapping, which collects information on
databases as well as the applications and users that access them, and then
provides administrators with a simple interface to turn these findings into
rules. While large enterprise organizations deploy granular rules to ensure that
access to databases at every level is restricted to only authorized users and
systems, it can be extremely difficult to identify every potential use case.
Application Mapping simplifies this process by allowing administrators to use
automation and statistical data to build out a customized, granular security
policy quickly and seamlessly, typically in a matter of weeks.

A February 2009 report from independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc.
cited that database security challenges have grown over the years. According to
the report, Market Overview: Database Security, "DBAs don`t know where sensitive
data is stored. Enterprises today have hundreds and thousands of production
databases to support various business applications. Many enterprise DBAs are
unaware of which databases, tables, and columns contain sensitive data, either
because these are legacy applications and/or because no documentation of the
data models and their properties exists."

Application Mapping was designed to simplify the security/audit policy creation
without the risks and limitations involved with base-lining and other learning
techniques that normally fail in production environments. These types of tools
only look for anomalies, and can miss potential threats that may be occurring
already, and also frequently issue unnecessary alerts on activity that may be
authorized, but was not present during the data gathering process. Application
Mapping utilizes automated techniques to understand activity; it then leverages
the knowledge and judgment of security and database professionals by enabling
them to use this information to efficiently create clearly defined policies in
their environments.

"Creating and maintaining audit and security policies for databases is not an
easy task and requires deep knowledge of the entire application and database
environment," said Dan Sarel, vice president of products at Sentrigo.
"Application Mapping is a tool that makes this task manageable, and is proven to
work even in complex production environments. This novel, hybrid approach to
policy creation leverages statistical data to assist security professionals as
they efficiently create custom rules that reflect their knowledge of the
enterprise and expert judgment."

Hedgehog 3.5 provides a number of other enhancements, including:

* Improved support for efficient WAN deployments by compressing traffic between
remote sensors and the server, enabling central management and monitoring of
geographically distributed systems
* Community feedback mechanism to gather data on virtual patch alerts and
automatically share this with Sentrigo`s research team, leveraging the
experience base of all users to track database attack trends
* Improved reporting and standards compliance templates

For more information about the Hedgehog Enterprise 3.5 solution, please visit
http://www.sentrigo.com/products/hedgehog-enterprise or call 781-935-2867.

About Sentrigo

Sentrigo, Inc. is a recognized innovator in database security. The company`s
Hedgehog software provides full-visibility database activity monitoring and
real-time protection and has been rapidly adopted by Global 2000 companies to
defend mission-critical data against insider misuse as well as outsider
intrusion. Enterprises across industry sectors are also using Sentrigo Hedgehog
to accelerate compliance with regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS,
Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA. Sentrigo has won wide acclaim for its industry and
technology leadership by publications such as Network World and SC Magazine. For
additional information and to download Hedgehog, visit www.sentrigo.com.

Sentrigo, Sentrigo Hedgehog, Hedgehog Identifier, Hedgehog vPatch and the
Sentrigo logo are trademarks of Sentrigo, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective holders.

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