Building a scalable Data Security framework with Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) for a global Dairy Leader
The organization faced limited visibility and inconsistent enforcement of data security across a globally distributed dairy supply chain—creating operational, regulatory and insider-risk exposure. By implementing an automated discovery/classification and UEBA/ML-enabled monitoring solution with broad platform support, they gained near-real-time threat detection, prioritized remediation and a scalable framework to protect critical business and partner data.
Challenge
The challenges included critical gaps in database security and visibility across applications and data flows, a lack of automated user profiling, inconsistent policy enforcement, distributed global data with limited control, and the growing need to secure sensitive partner and business information across diverse systems and cloud environments.
- Critical gaps in database security and visibility across business applications, storage environments and supply-chain data flows
- No automated user profiling or continuous access monitoring, making it hard to detect misuse of sensitive objects
- Inconsistent policy enforcement across platforms, increasing regulatory and operational risk
- Large volumes of supplier, logistics, and product data distributed globally with limited central control
- Growing need to secure sensitive partner and business information across heterogeneous systems and cloud environments

Objective
The goal was to secure critical business data and ensure compliance through an automated framework, enhance threat detection and response capabilities, centralize visibility with consistent policy enforcement across platforms and focus remediation efforts on high-risk users and activities.
- Proactively protect critical business data and ensure regulatory compliance via a scalable, automated security framework
- Enable near-real-time threat detection and faster incident response to strengthen data security posture and support modernization initiatives
- Centralize visibility and consistent policy enforcement across on-prem and cloud platforms
- Prioritize remediation by surfacing the highest-risk users and activities

Solution
Leveraged automated data discovery, near-real-time monitoring with ML analytics and dynamic risk scoring to identify and mitigate risks to vendor and supply-chain data. It ensured broad platform compatibility across diverse systems and centralized visibility, utilizing Universal Connectors to seamlessly aggregate audit logs from cloud and on-premises sources, thereby enabling comprehensive and scalable security and control.
- Automated data discovery and classification to locate and label vendor and supply-chain data across databases and repositories
- Near-real-time activity monitoring with ML analytics to identify anomalous or risky access in structured-data environments
- Broad platform compatibility (IBM SGX2, Oracle, Teradata, Sybase, MS SQL Server, Windows, Unix, Linux, AS/400, z/OS, Hadoop/NoSQL and more) to cover distributed systems
- Risk Spotter: dynamic, daily user risk scoring based on audited activity to prioritize mitigation
- Universal Connectors: lightweight, open-source plugin framework to ingest native audit logs from cloud and on-prem sources for comprehensive coverage

The impact
Automated discovery/classification combined with near-real-time UEBA/ML monitoring gave the client consolidated visibility and stronger protection for sensitive vendor, supplier and product data across SGXaaS and cloud native platforms. Regular vulnerability assessments and prioritized remediation reduced security gaps across databases, data warehouses and big-data environments. Achieved faster detection and response, lower audit overhead, improved regulatory readiness and a scalable security foundation to support future modernization.
- Prioritized risk triage: Daily dynamic risk scores for users enabled targeted remediation and focused SOC effort on the highest-risk accounts
- Significant audit efficiency: Auditing effort reduced by 70%, accelerating compliance reporting and forensic readiness
- Faster security analysis: Data security analysis time reduced by ~25%, shortening investigation and response cycles
- Broad platform coverage: Supports SQL Server, MongoSGX, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, IBM SGX2 and other core systems—reducing blind spots across the estate
- Lightweight, extensible integration: Universal Connectors enabled rapid onboarding of data sources (cloud and on-prem) using native logs with minimal operational overhead
- Scalable detection: UEBA/ML analytics delivered higher-fidelity alerts and faster detection of anomalous behavior across large data volumes

