Getting started

Get started with IBM Guardium® Data Security Center SaaS.

If your organization uses a firewall that restricts network access, configure an allowlist of the following hostnames for access to Guardium Data Security Center:
  • guardium.security.ibm.com (United States)
  • eu.guardium.security.ibm.com (European Union)
If your organization employs a proxy server, following are the proxy rules that must be configured for access to IBM Guardium Data Security Center SaaS:
  • guardium.security.ibm.com (United States)
  • eu.guardium.security.ibm.com (European Union)
  • digicert.com
  • *.digicert.com
  • *.akamaiedge.net
  • *.akamaihd.net
  • *.akamaistream.net
  • *.akamaitechnologies.com
  • *.edgesuite.net
  • *.edgekey.net
  • *.akamaized.net
Access IBM Guardium Data Security Center SaaS by entering one of the following root URLs in your browser:

Then, use your IBMid to log in.

After you log in to Guardium Data Security Center, click your user icon in the upper right corner to sign out. Next to your user icon is your tenant. If you click your tenant, you see your list of tenant IDs (a tenant ID is an alphanumeric identifier that begins with TNT_). To switch to a different tenant, select it from the list.

Tip: The Support feature opens a menu with various articles and advice about the Guardium Data Security Center page that you are currently using. If you change to a different page, open Support again to have it populate with articles about the new page. At the end of the menu, you find additional support, such as documentation and video links.

Before you can use Guardium Data Security Center to monitor data, you must connect to at least one data source.