Database Activity Monitoring is an extremely valuable tool for compliance and security; it is critical to the emerging practice of information-centric security. Database Activity Monitoring gives insight into our most sensitive systems in a non-intrusive way, and can evolve into a proactive security defense. It's one of the few tools that can immediately improve security and reduce compliance overhead without interfering with business processes.

Although deploying a tool that crosses the organizational and technical expertise boundaries between database, security, and application management can be daunting, by understanding your needs and following a structured selection process you can help ensure a successful deployment. Many clients start with a narrowly scoped project which quickly expands throughout the enterprise.

From a business standpoint, the most important factor in a successful deployment is pulling together the key stakeholders across database, security, and application administration to determine initial requirements from a technical and process standpoint.