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Guardium Data Protection Fundamentals
Data security and privacy challengers are never-ending. IBM Guardium Data Protection (Guardium) provides a broad range of data security and protection capabilities that can protect sensitive and...
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$2,850 USD
Duration
3 days
Course Code
8G103G
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Overview
Data security and privacy challengers are never-ending. IBM Guardium Data Protection (Guardium) provides a broad range of data security and protection capabilities that can protect sensitive and regulated data across environments and platforms. It discovers and classifies sensitive data from across an enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual data activity.
The course prepares the student to administer Guardium appliances, discover unusual data activity, locate vulnerable data, automate compliance processes, and monitor and protect sensitive data. To proact using Guardium, students complete hands-on lab exercises.
This course is based on Guardium Data Protection version 12.1.
Skills Gained
- Identify the primary functions of Guardium Data Protection
- Describe key Guardium architecture components
- Navigate the Guardium user interface and use the command line interface
- Manage user access to Guardium
- Build and populate Guardium groups
- Use system settings and management tolls to manage, configure, and monitor Guardium resources
- Archive, backup, and restore Guardium data
- Discover sensitive data and perform vulnerability assessments
- Use Guardium audit process tools to streamline the compliance process
- Describe how to apply rule order, logic, and actions to Guardium policies
- Configure policy rules that process the information that is gathered from database and file servers
- Create Guardium queries and reports to examine trends and gather data
- Use Guardium alerts to monitor a data environment
Who Can Benefit
Database administrators, security administrators, security analysts, security technical architects, and professional services using Guardium Data Protection
Prerequisites
Students should be knowledgeable about the following topics:
- Working knowledge of SQL queries for IBM Db2 and other databases
- Working knowledge of UNIX commands
- Ability to use UNIX text editor such as vi
- Data protection standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR
Course Details
Course Outline
Unit 1: Guardium overview
Unit 2: Guardium architecture
Unit 3: Guardium user interfaces
Unit 4: Access management
Unit 5: Guardium groups
Unit 6: System management
Unit 7: Data management
Unit 8: Guardium discovery & vulnerability assessment
Unit 9: Audit process automation
Unit 10: Policy design
Unit 11: Policy configuration
Unit 12: Guardium reporting
Unit 13: Guardium alerts
Schedule
3 options available
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Jul 15, 2025 - Jul 17, 2025 (3 days)
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Sep 16, 2025 - Sep 18, 2025 (3 days)
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Nov 18, 2025 - Nov 20, 2025 (3 days)
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