IBM® InfoSphere® Guardium® provides the simplest, most robust solution for data security and data privacy by assuring the integrity of trusted information in your data center. InfoSphere Guardium helps you reduce support costs by automating the entire compliance auditing process across heterogeneous environments. InfoSphere Guardium offers a flexible and scalable solution to support varying customer architecture requirements.

This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a guide for deploying the Guardium solutions.

This book also provides a roadmap process for implementing an InfoSphere Guardium solution that is based on years of experience and best practices that were collected from various Guardium experts. We describe planning, installation, configuration, monitoring, and administrating an InfoSphere Guardium environment. We also describe use cases and how InfoSphere Guardium integrates with other IBM products.

The guidance can help you successfully deploy and manage an IBM InfoSphere Guardium system.

This book is intended for the system administrators and support staff who are responsible for deploying or supporting an InfoSphere Guardium environment.

Chapter 1. Solutions and architecture

Chapter 2. Implementation planning

Chapter 3. Installation and configuration

Chapter 4. Monitoring and auditing

Chapter 5. Monitoring setup

Chapter 6. Access management

Chapter 7. Ongoing operations

Chapter 8. Disaster recovery

Chapter 9. Upgrade best practices

Chapter 10. Use cases

Chapter 11. Integration with other IBM products