Database Security: Monitoring and Prevention with Sentrigo's Hedgehog

Real-time monitoring, alerts and prevention of database breaches

Sentrigo's Hedgehog Database Security Monitoring and Prevention





Why Buy?

  • Prevent unauthorized database breaches ('kill session')
  • Safeguards data from the insider threat. Did you know that 2/3 of organizations report losses caused by internal breaches? (source: FBI/CSI 2006 survey)
  • Facilitate regulatory compliance with reporting and forensics
  • Automatic security patching - no human intervention necessary
  • Safely support authorized users, no disruptions to business


  • Protects your database from abnormal activity, SQL injections, privilege escalation attempts, buffer overflow, use of blacklisted or partially blacklisted apps and attempts to tamper with Hedgehog components (self-protection).
  • Prevents breaches with pre-defined 'kill session' rules.
  • Safeguards data from the insider threat. Did you know 2/3 organizations report losses caused by internal breaches (source: FBI/CSI 2006 survey).
  • Flexible reporting facilitates regulatory compliance and forensics for PCI DSS, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA and privacy notification laws such as CA SB 1386.
  • Real-time monitoring and alerting with sorting and filtering by severity level, time, rule triggers and more.
  • Virtual patching of predefined rules that address known and newly discovered vulnerabilities, updates in real-time (first year free).
  • Granular user-defined rules, inspecting activity based on SQL statements, database objects being accessed, IP address, user, date & time ranges, application used to access the database, and more.
  • Ability to send e-mail alerts, and integrate with 3rd party network and security management systems via Syslog or SNMP.
  • Host-based software runs on shared DB memory and uses < 5% of CPU. You will experience no performance degradation.
  • Strong self-security through separation of duties. Tampering with Hedgehog requires cooperation of sys-admin, security and DBA.
  • Scalable and able to centrally configure and monitor hundreds of databases. Supports clustering (e.g. Oracle RAC) and virtual environments.

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