Aurva Database Activity Monitoring vs DB CyberTech Security

Aurva Database Activity Monitoring is a paid, self-hosted product for monitoring database queries from people, service accounts, and AI agents. It identifies the responsible actor and shows role, application, and access path. For AI agents, it builds behavioral baselines and alerts when activity deviates from expected patterns. Policies can govern access by identity, data sensitivity, location, and time, including blocking access or redacting columns. Aurva describes a passive, out-of-band architecture that monitors traffic without sitting in the query path and says it adds 0 ms of application latency. Deployment options include agent, agentless, combined, cloud, on-premises, and hybrid setups. Named coverage includes PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, DynamoDB, Kafka, and other stores, with integrations including Databricks, Amazon Athena, Aurora, Redis, and Microsoft SQL Server. Aurva lists audit logging and sensitive-data monitoring aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 objectives. Pricing is custom and available on request.

DB CyberTech Security monitors structured data moving between databases and clients to identify potential threats and alert on possible data loss. It is designed to add continuous structured-data monitoring to policy-based protections for unstructured data, including monitoring for potential insider threats. The company describes a detection approach using Layer 7 protocol extraction and decoding, discovery, machine learning and behavioral analysis to identify anomalies that may signal malicious intent. Its stated scope includes potential data theft after a perimeter breach, APTs and zero-day attacks. The product is available on the web and has a hybrid deployment model, with real-time alerts and compliance reporting listed. DB CyberTech says Security was certified as McAfee Compatible, and its Security, Visibility and Privacy solutions work with McAfee DLP; Gigamon is listed as a technology partner. The company identifies large financial institutions, healthcare providers, manufacturers and government entities among its customers. Pricing is on request, and the product page directs prospective customers to contact the company or schedule a demo.