Alcatel-Lucent has partnered with UK database security firm
Secerno to improve the database analysis capabilities of its
security consultants.
The networking firm is the first to join Secerno's
newly-launched Security Consultants Programme (SCP).
The programme gives members access to the Secerno.SQL Agile
software tool for profiling the way customers' databases are
queried.
Anthony Coronato, director of global business development and
partnerships at Alcatel-Lucent, said the tool will give the firm a
clearer picture of customers' database activity.
This will enable Alcatel-Lucent's security consultants to help
customers set up a control policy on their network that allows only
legitimate queries to the database.
"Consultants will be able to identify vulnerabilities and
inefficiencies in applications or database stored procedures," said
Coronato.
Paul Davie, founder and COO at Secerno, said the recent spate of
SQL-injection attacks and high profile data breaches has
shifted attention to database security.
"There is now less emphasis on network security than on ensuring
database applications and queries are secure," he said.
According to Davie, there is a rapidly growing awareness of
organisations of the need to understand and control the use of
their data.
Security services company Integralis has also signed up to the
SCP, which enables them to build Secerno's technology into the
systems and services they supply.
This will enable partners to build systems and services to
provide real-time database and compliance reports tailored to
regulations such as PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA and the Data Protection
Act, Secerno said.