Guardium

IBM Security Guardium safeguards sensitive data with a simple, robust solution that supports the data security lifecycle.
From automating compliance to preventing data leaks from databases, files, big data platforms, and more, Guardium can protect your sensitive data.

Guardium Roadmaps:

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Getting Started with Guardium

The total time required to complete this roadmap is 12h 35m.

This roadmap outlines fundamental courses that are intended for someone new to IBM Guardium. These courses describe how to plan for and deploy Guardium. It discusses the Guardium installation management (GIM) agent and discusses S-TAP deployment to database servers, as well as using Guardium to manage a database hosted in Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure. This roadmap includes how to configure Guardium policies and discover vulnerabilities in your data environment. It also discusses how to clone and create Guardium queries and reports.

Planning

These courses prepare you to plan a Guardium deployment.
Is Your Guardium Environment Secure & Supportable?
Foundational
Working with Guardium Certificates
Intermediate
IBM Security Guardium On-Cloud Deployment Guides
Advanced

Deployment

These courses teach you to deploy a Guardium environment.
Facilitating secure hybrid cloud adoption with Guardium
Foundational
Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) Agent Installation - Part 1
Intermediate
Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) Usage and Deployment Methods - Part 2
Intermediate
Deploying the Guardium S-TAP Agent
Intermediate
How to download a Guardium patch
Intermediate
Guardium appliance patching
Intermediate
Guardium in AWS
Intermediate
Guardium in Azure
Intermediate
Deployment Guide for InfoSphere Guardium
Advanced

Configuration

These courses teach you how to configure Guardium.
Create, install, and update a Guardium policy
Foundational
Getting started with Guardium policy actions
Foundational
Creating and populating Guardium groups
Foundational
Getting started with Guardium alerts
Foundational
File Activity Monitoring using Guardium
Foundational

Vulnerability Assessment

These courses teach you how to discover vulnerabilities in your data environment.
Guardium database vulnerability assessment
Foundational
Guardium 11 Vulnerability Assessment Overview
Intermediate

Reporting

These courses teach you how to generate reports.
Create a Guardium query and report
Foundational
Clone a Guardium query and report
Foundational
Guardium Query-Report Builder
Foundational
Create Guardium reports with drill-down capabilities
Intermediate
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Guardium User

The total time required to complete this roadmap is 8h .

As a Guardium User, you will learn how to configure Guardium resources to discover, monitor, and protect your database environment

Foundations

These courses introduce you to basic Guardium concepts
Overview of the IBM Guardium User Interface
Foundational

Data activity monitoring

These courses help you monitor the database activity in your Guardium environment
Detect database login failures with Guardium
Foundational
Using Guardium to quarantine database access
Intermediate
Guardium Access, Exception, and Extrusion Policy Rules
Foundational
Create, install, and update a Guardium policy
Foundational
Getting started with Guardium policy actions
Foundational
Creating a Guardium policy that ignores trusted user session database activity
Foundational
Creating and populating Guardium groups
Foundational
Defining a query-based test for Guardium Vulnerability Assessment
Intermediate

Vulnerability assessment

Use these courses to learn how to discover vulnerabilities in your data environment
Explore active threat analytics in Guardium 11
Foundational
Guardium 11 Vulnerability Assessment Overview
Intermediate
Guardium database vulnerability assessment
Foundational

Reporting

These courses teach you how to create reports in Guardium
Create a Guardium query and report
Foundational
Clone a Guardium query and report
Foundational
Create Guardium reports with drill-down capabilities
Intermediate
Guardium Query-Report Builder
Foundational

Compliance

Use these courses to learn how you can use Guardium for compliance monitoring
Guardium 11 smart assistant for compliance monitoring
Foundational
PCI compliance quickstart with IBM Guardium
Intermediate

Commercial courses

Commercial courses cover a broad range of fundamental tasks.Tasks are described in the course summary of each course. If you prefer an instructor-led training program, these commercial courses are for you. Many topics covered in the commercial courses are also available in the Security Learning Academy.
IBM Security Guardium Foundations
Foundational
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Guardium Administrator

The total time required to complete this roadmap is 18h 27m.

As a Guardium Adminstrator, you will learn how to implement and manage data security solutions using Guardium

Foundations

These courses introduce you to basic Guardium concepts
Overview of the IBM Guardium User Interface
Foundational

Deployment

Use these courses to learn about deploying Guardium and monitoring agents
How to download a Guardium patch
Intermediate
Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) Agent Installation - Part 1
Intermediate
Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) Usage and Deployment Methods - Part 2
Intermediate
Installing and configuring S-TAP
Advanced
Deploying the Guardium S-TAP Agent
Intermediate
Upgrading a Guardium appliance to version 11.0
Intermediate
Guardium v10 Enterprise Load Balancing
Intermediate
Deployment Guide for InfoSphere Guardium
Advanced
IBM Security Guardium On-Cloud Deployment Guides
Advanced

Configuration

These courses help you configure Guardium
How can I check if the correct data is being logged on my Guardium Appliance?
Foundational
Supported Platforms
Foundational
Finding the correct K-TAP version for your Linux kernel
Foundational
Create and configure real-time alerts
Foundational
Use prebuilt and predefined alerts to configure an alerts dashboard
Foundational
Configure and view correlation alerts
Foundational
Configure Alerter and Anomaly Detection
Foundational

Administration

These courses teach you how to administer and patch a Guardium environment
Getting started with Guardium alerts
Foundational
Guardium disk and database health analyzer
Foundational
Create Guardium policy to log file activity
Foundational
Use system alerts to monitor your Guardium environment
Intermediate
Guardium default roles
Intermediate
Guardium sample roles
Intermediate
Guardium User Management
Intermediate
Guardium appliance patching
Intermediate
Tips and tricks to keep Windows S-TAP healthy
Intermediate
IBM Guardium: Sniffer restart & High CPU correlation alerts
Advanced
Archiving Guardium Data
Advanced

Troubleshooting

Use these courses to gather information on basic Guardium issues and work with Support to remediate them
IBM Guardium troubleshooting and Support
Intermediate
Guardium Open Mic: Using Buffer Usage Monitor Report & Sniffer Must-gather for Troubleshooting
Intermediate
Troubleshooting Missing Guardium Database User Problems
Intermediate
The Case of the Missing Guardium DB Users
Intermediate
Using the Flat Log Policy
Advanced
Preventing and Reacting to Guardium Database Full Issues
Advanced
IBM Guardium alerts: Database full troubleshooting
Advanced

Commercial courses

Commercial courses cover a broad range of fundamental tasks.Tasks are described in the course summary of each course. If you prefer an instructor-led training program, these commercial courses are for you. Many topics covered in the commercial courses are also available in the Security Learning Academy.
IBM Security Guardium Foundations
Foundational

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