by heimdalladmin | Aug 6, 2025 | Security
Most organizations have made significant progress in auditing user access at the application and identity provider level. However, databases remain a persistent blind spot. Traditional database access auditing often focuses on query logging or privileged access, but...
by heimdalladmin | Aug 4, 2025 | Case Study
Inxpress deployed the Heimdall Database Proxy for their Amazon RDS for MySQL for added database scale and security. This blog highlights the challenges and the benefits acheived by implementing the proxy. Challenge When Inxpress upgraded the...
by heimdalladmin | May 27, 2025 | Case Study
Postgres databases are known for having a high number of connections. Additionally, thes user need authenticate to ensure the appropriate, limited access is given. In this blog, we will discuss how Postgres customers...
by heimdalladmin | May 19, 2025 | Case Study
Database user management is complex and often not in regulatory compliance. User credentials can sprawl to the directory, application and database. Managing this requires extensive work. In this blog, we will discuss how the customer used the Heimdall Database PAM...
by heimdalladmin | Apr 22, 2025 | Security
Database security is deceptively complex. While companies strive to maintain robust security and compliance programs, auditing access to sensitive data in databases remains a blind spot. Database permissions are not simply about assigning direct privileges to users:...
by Roland Lee | Feb 21, 2025 | Security
In today’s data-driven environment, ensuring database security and regulatory compliance is a critical challenge for organizations across various sectors. The Heimdall Database Access Gateway meets these challenges by providing a robust framework for secure 1)...
by Roland Lee | Feb 11, 2025 | VMware Greenplum
Introduction Getting the most out of your database requires developing a data access layer. The alternative solution is to use a database proxy. The Heimdall Database Proxy for Tanzu Data provides a seamless solution to manage front end connections without any...
by Erik Bransberg | Sep 15, 2024 | AWS
In today’s world of serverless architectures, high-performance analytics, and stringent SLAs, managing workloads on databases like Amazon Aurora and Redshift has become more complex. The Heimdall Database Proxy offers a robust solution to these challenges, allowing...
by heimdalladmin | Jan 17, 2024 | AWS
Companies deploy Amazon Redshift for large-scale MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data analytics. These systems apply parallel compute resources to answer queries quickly. However, there remain application security and performance challenges. Heimdall Data offers...
by Erik Bransberg | Dec 1, 2023 | Azure, Security
For database deployments in Azure, there are many options to manage authentication. The first is to use pure SQL based authentication, where the user, password and roles are pre-configured on the database. The second is to use Microsoft Entra ID (Formerly Azure...
