CryptoBind Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) vs DATASKOPE

CryptoBind Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) provides real-time database activity visibility, threat detection, and audit support for regulated industries, government systems, BFSI, and Aadhaar ecosystems. It captures SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations, reconstructs and normalizes queries, and correlates application and database users. It can detect access to sensitive fields such as Aadhaar, PAN, PII, and PCI data, while monitoring DBA and superuser activity, schema changes, privilege grants, account creation or deletion, and privilege escalation. Alerts can follow rules or behavior, with anomaly detection based on activity volume, frequency, and time of day, and severity levels from Low to Critical. The vendor describes append-only, cryptographically signed audit logs, hashing, WORM storage support, and tampering alerts. Listed databases are PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server; MongoDB is an optional add-on and DB2 is on the roadmap. Deployment choices include on-premises, VM-based private cloud, government cloud, and air-gapped or offline SOC environments. Web dashboards, lightweight agents, a central DAM server, and REST and gRPC APIs are described. Pricing is on request.

DATASKOPE monitors, analyzes, alerts on, and reports database activity in real time. It records who accessed sensitive data, where access came from, which transactions occurred, and when. Audit visibility can be limited by user, database, table, and command. Recorded operations include SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, and EXEC, showing what changed and by whom. DATASKOPE tracks successful and unsuccessful logins plus administrative actions such as creating or deleting users. Predefined alarm rules classify database events and notify responsible people. Its NoSQL search engine distributes searches across nodes and is described as scaling horizontally and vertically. Audit data can be automatically backed up and archived, with geographic replication and local redundancy. The product supports multiple database engines and is presented for activity monitoring, access governance, audit reporting, and threat detection. Pricing is not published; Plainex offers contact and demo requests.