Starting with version 10.6, Guardium has a new query and report builder. This builder incorporates many of the 10.x design features, including a format that presents configuration options as sections, as well as an intuitive, step-by-step guide to create and configure the query. The report is automatically generated from the query. If the query is modified, the report is automatically regenerated when the query is saved.

In the lab exercises, you create a query and report that shows SQL commands. Then you generate data to test the report and view the results.

Guardium contains a powerful tool that links related reports. Users can click report entries and view a list of other reports that provide more granular information related to the entry. In this lab, you create a drill-down report to extend the capabilities of existing reports. Then, you test your new report.

This lab environment reflects Guardium 10.5.

In this Open Mic, you will learn about IBM Guardium distributed reports. This Central Manager feature provides a way to automatically gather data from all or a subset of the Guardium managed units that are associated with this particular Central Manager. Distributed reports are designed to provide a high-level view, to correlate data from across data sources, and to summarize views of the data.

Guardium provides over 600 preconfigured reports. As well as being useful in themselves, these reports can serve as templates to create a report customized to your specific needs. This saves time and effort. In this course, you clone a Guardium query. Then, you customize the fields and conditions of this query and generate a report from the new query.

The lab environment reflects Guardium 10.5.

Lou Fuka

File activity monitoring (FAM) includes two major components. The first component discovers and classifies files stored in the file system, and the second component is the activity monitor. It extracts the security policy from the appliance and enforces it on file activity in real time. 

In this lab, you view the settings necessary to perform file access monitoring, create a dashboard and add a file entitlement report, and then perform some file operations to view how the FAM functionality reacts to changes.

Franklin Almonte, Guardium 10.5

Guardium gathers a large amount of data about your database environment. You use reports and queries to learn the details of your data security environment. In this virtual lab, you create a dashboard, simple query, and report that is used to examine user data you generate.

The lab environment reflects Guardium 10.5.

Franklin Almonte

Guardium technical support commonly analyzes the Buffer Usage Monitor Report & Sniffer must_gather to determine problems occurring with in the Guardium environment. This Open Mic explores those reports and information commonly analyzed.

In this video, you will see how to use specific Guardium GUI reports to check the data being logged on a Guardium Appliance .

Guardium 10.x includes functionality you can use to monitor file activity. In this course, you view the discovery and classification capabilities of the file activity monitoring (FAM) tools and learn how to set up a blocking rule to prevent someone from deleting files in a directory and logs the attempt. You also learn how to create and install policies to monitor files.

In this session from Virtual Master Skills University 2020, Billy Manty covers reporting in Guardium today: Custom queries,  reports, domains and compliance workflow , distributed reports, data marts, and how to enhance with a modern approach.

Employees in organizations need access to various assets to perform their job. Managing this access can be a challenge as requirements change. For example, new applications are added or existing users need additional access rights. This gets more complex when you collaborate with outside organizations  and you might not know who in the other organization needs access to your organization's resources and vice versa.

IBM Security Guardium can aid you with entitlement management. You can use Guardium Database Entitlement Reports to verify that users only have access to the appropriate data. Your IBM Security Guardium system includes predefined database entitlement reports for several database types. Database entitlement reports provide up-to-date snapshots of database users and access privileges.

In this lab, you learn how to prepare and run these reports to validate and ensure that users only have the privileges required to perform their duties.

Franklin Almonte

In this video, you will see how to use Guardium reports to show how data is spread across tables and across time.  This is important information to help prevent database full issues.