SoftTree Announces Availability of DB Audit Expert for MySQL Databases

SoftTree Technologies, a leading provider of management and
administration solutions for SQL, today announced its flagship DB
Audit Expert software has been enhanced to support MySQL databases.
The industry's first and only multi-platform database auditing
solution for Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and now MySQL,
the product satisfies the needs of companies large and small. DB Audit
Expert enables database and system administrators, security
administrators, auditors and operators to track and analyze any
database activity including database security, access and usage, data
creation, change or deletion. With the addition of MySQL support, DB
Audit Expert now empowers users of the world's most popular open
source database with a comprehensive auditing and compliance tool
previously available only to users of commercial database platforms.

SoftTree will initially support MySQL version 5.x on Windows and
Linux systems. Support for MySQL version 4.x is planned for later this
year. "Our customer base has been asking for MySQL support for a long
time," said Bryan Bain, chief marketing officer at SoftTree
Technologies. "Our initial feature set represents a huge leap forward
for the MySQL community but it will get substantially better over
time," said Bain. DB Audit Expert will enable MySQL administrators to
address key database security concerns that include database security
and vulnerabilities assessment, database access and user activity
auditing, as well as business and regulatory compliance. By year-end,
MySQL support will include all of the auditing and compliance
functions inherent in DB Audit Expert, including:

-- Monitoring of regular and back-door access

-- Auditing and continuous compliance

-- Centralized auditing control of multiple database systems

-- Real-time performance monitoring and diagnostics

-- Real-time email alerting

-- Regulatory Compliance reporting

DB Audit Expert currently supports auditing of MySQL
user-activities and data-changes, including but not limited to logon
events, user account changes, object access events, privilege use
events, and policy change events. Subsequent releases will provide the
full breadth of DB Audit functionality to MySQL users, including
analytical reports, data-change auditing, audit log consolidation
(central repositories) and policy violation alerting. "Very little
progress has been made on the MySQL plan for Simple Data Auditing.
We're committed to filling the void. DB Audit Expert enables the
auditing of all user access; including local access on the server as
well as access via encrypted and compressed network protocols. Neither
of which are technically possible in the competitive network
monitoring methods," said Bain.

The addition of MySQL database support in DB Audit Expert provides
users of LAMP-based web applications with a viable tool to proactively
manage database security. The majority of LAMP applications use local
PHP and Perl scripts to connect web-servers to local MySQL instances,
which makes such database access virtually "invisible" to network
monitoring tools. DB Audit Expert provides MySQL administrators with
visibility into who accessed the database, what they did and when they
did it - enabling identify illegal access or malicious data inserts
into database tables.

DB Audit Expert provides a cost-effective solution for companies
using multiple database systems to meet internal and external audit
standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA, BASEL II and The USA
Patriot Act.

Pricing and Availability

Support for MySQL system level auditing will be available in DB
Audit 4.0, scheduled for release in May. A beta version is available
immediately. Pricing starts at $495.00 per database instance.

About SoftTree Technologies

SoftTree delivers a power suite of tools for managing and
administering the world's most popular database management systems -
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, and Sybase. DBA-proven, and
engineered for the enterprise, SoftTree's solutions include:
Scheduling, Job Management, Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics,
Configuration Management, Auditing and Compliance, and Data Migration
and Transformation. Headquartered in Staten Island, NY, SoftTree's
products are sold and supported directly and via authorized resellers
and distributors around the globe. For more information, please visit
www.softtree.com.