IBM Guardium Data Protection empowers security teams to monitor and protect their heterogeneous environments, including databases, data warehouses, files, file shares, cloud and big-data platforms such as Hadoop and NoSQL. This solution provides automated sensitive data discovery and classification, real-time data activity monitoring and analytics to discover unusual activity around sensitive data. Guardium Data Protection improves security and supports compliance requirements through a set of core capabilities that help reduce risk and minimize cost of ownership.