Two significant events in the database security market occurred this week. On the one end of the spectrum Guardium, a late stage database security startup, was purchased by IBM for $225 million.

I love open source software, however not many open source projects make it and become an enterprise grade solution. In the security field only a handful of projects have succeeded in doing so: snort,Nessus and ModSecurity come to mind. GreenSQL, the only open source database firewall is on its way to achieving this: Its first non beta version, labeled appropriately 1.0 was just released.