Protegrity Receives Patent for New Method of Detecting Database Breaches

Published: December 5, 2006

by Alex Woodie

Database security vendor Protegrity says it has found a better way to detect and thwart malicious attempts to access a database. In fact, the New England software company announced last week that it's been awarded a patent for its new invention.

It's been a couple of months since Protegrity announced support for DB2/400 in Defiance 4.2, the most recent release of its data and application security software suite. Protegrity partnered with renowned i5/OS security expert Patrick Townsend & Associates to develop support for the intricacies of DB2/400.

Last week, Protegrity announced that it's been awarded United States Patent 7,120,933, which describes a method for detecting intrusion into a database by monitoring the access rates for each user, or a group of users. Protegrity officials say that, by monitoring the access rates (or the number of records accessed at one time, or the number of records accessed over a certain period of time), its software can quickly alert the access control system to shut down access to that user.

"When we implement this patent in Defiance, our customers will gain yet another method for integrating and delivering enterprise-wide data security," says Gordon Rapkin, president and CEO of Protegrity. "Providing access controls with input from the database gives clients more protection in real-time to help stop bad actors."

Protegrity plans to add this new capability to the Defiance 7DPS family of products, which support all major database systems, including DB2/400.

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