What Does Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) Mean?

Techopedia Explains Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)

  • Monitor and audit all database activity independently including SELECT transactions and privileged users’ activities, without performance degradation
  • Securely store the database activity outside the monitored database
  • Generate alerts whenever policy violations are detected
  • Aggregate and correlate database activities from multiple heterogeneous database management systems
  • Enforce separation of duties of database administrators, monitor the administrators’ activities and prevent the manipulation or tampering of recorded activities or logs