Case Study: Leading Property and Casualty Insurance Company achieves 90% reduction in IBM Guardium administration with Imperva Sonar

Insurance Company reduces IBM Guardium administration effort by 90% with Imperva Data Security

A 150-year-old North American property and casualty insurer that depended on IBM Guardium for database compliance faced growing regulatory and customer pressure (GDPR, CCPA, NYFDS) and a strategic shift from compliance to proactive security. Guardium’s limited database coverage, manual incident-response and reporting processes, and short retention windows made it difficult to detect and prevent unauthorized access and support new platforms like MarkLogic.

The company deployed Imperva Sonar to extend coverage and integrate with Guardium using agentless collection, automated workflows and ServiceNow ticketing, plus UEBA for behavioral analysis. This delivered support for MarkLogic without infrastructure changes, automated the production data edit process, enabled multi-year audit retention and reduced administrative workload by 90%, allowing the team to focus on higher-value security events.