Practice Labs - Apply Data Protection

IBM Security Guardium.

The IBM Security Guardium Vulnerability Assessment application enables organizations to identify and address database vulnerabilities in a consistent and automated fashion. The assessment process in Guardium evaluates and recommends actions to improve the health of your database environment.

Let's complete some labs to gain working knowledge of IBM Security Guardium.

Creating an IBM account

The content to train on Guardium is available at the IBM Learning website. It is mandatory that you have an IBM account (IBMid) to access the training videos and labs mentioned below.

If you do not already have an IBMid, click here to create one for free.

Virtual lab course(s):

Lab 1: Guardium database vulnerability assessments

In this lab, you will assess system configuration, finding potential threats, including configuration and behavioral risks. You will also be able to find inherent vulnerabilities such as missing security fixes. This lab will provide you with an opportunity to create results reports that provide recommendations and show progress in an action plan.

It should take you approximately 30 minutes to complete the lab.

Click here to get started with the course objectives and navigate to the different assets required to complete the lab.

Click here to download the step-by-step lab guide.

Click here to access the lab environment.

Lab 2: Create a Guardium query and report

IBM Security Guardium gathers a large amount of data about your database environment. You use reports and queries to learn the details of your data security environment. In this virtual lab, you create a dashboard, simple query, and report that is used to examine user data.

It should take you approximately 20 minutes to complete the lab.

Click here to get started with the course objectives and navigate to the different assets required to complete the lab.

Click here to download the step-by-step lab guide.

Click here to access the lab environment.

Note: If you already completed the Penetration Testing, Incident Response and Forensics course, you have the option to take these labs again.

Training Videos

Click here to get started with the course.

Optional: For more information about IBM Security Guardium, navigate to https://www.ibm.com/guardium.