Case Studies in Higher Education

University of Bristol (UK)

Describes the experiences of a leading university in selecting and implementing database activity monitoring to protect sensitive information.

Top 5 U.S. University

Challenge

Large Oracle customer, some MS SQL databases - Needed to protect critical HR, student PII, financial records, grants all stored on Oracle databases.
Database security initiatives were too complex to manage on their own, as they would normally employ graduate students to build (homegrown) solutions

Why they chose Sentrigo

Database Compliance with FERPA, HIPAA and other academic-related compliance initiatives that intersect multi-departments
Lightweight solution
Sentrigo’s ease of installation and configuration

Results

Any access by DB administrators is now monitored
Access to sensitive tables generates high alerts
Access by application administrators is monitored

Excessive access from the application generates high alerts

Next steps