ESDS has launched Enlight Jatayoo, a database activity monitoring platform for regulated organisations in India. The product is aimed at sectors including banking, government, healthcare and manufacturing.
The software is designed to monitor database activity, privileged access and SQL-level behaviour from an on-premises, air-gapped setup. ESDS said it can be deployed without restarting the database, which it argues can reduce disruption during security roll-outs.
The launch comes as Indian organisations face tighter oversight on data security, audit trails and privileged access. ESDS pointed to CERT-In requirements on log retention, the Reserve Bank of India's measures on access controls, and broader database audit expectations under market regulator SEBI's cyber resilience framework.
Database monitoring has become a more prominent issue for companies that have invested heavily in network and endpoint security but still have limited visibility into activity inside core data stores. That gap is particularly sensitive in sectors handling financial records, health data and government information.
Security focus
ESDS said Enlight Jatayoo is intended to provide a single point of oversight for database activity visibility, privileged access monitoring, insider threat detection and compliance reporting. According to the company, the platform supports real-time query monitoring, tracks user sessions, reviews privileged access patterns and produces audit logs for forensic review.
ESDS also said the product is built to keep customer data within their own infrastructure, with no external data transmission. That approach reflects growing demand among Indian organisations for domestic hosting and tighter control over sensitive operational data.
Piyush Somani, promoter, managing director and chairman of ESDS, linked the launch to concerns over insider access and limited monitoring at the database layer.
"Over 74% of confirmed data breaches globally involve access to privileged credentials or insider access, and the database is the final destination in every one of those incidents. Organisations across every sector - banking, government, healthcare, manufacturing - have invested heavily in perimeter security: firewalls, endpoint agents and SIEM platforms. But the database layer, where the actual data lives, has remained a blind spot.
That blind spot is no longer acceptable. Regulatory mandates are tightening. Audit expectations are rising. And the threat is no longer theoretical. The Enlight Jatayoo Database Activity Monitoring platform is built on Indian soil for Indian operating realities, and can be deployed without disrupting a single production system. We believe the next decade of enterprise data security will be defined by how deeply organisations understand what is happening inside their databases. Enlight Jatayoo is how they find out," he said.
Audit pressure
Organisations in banking, insurance, healthcare and the public sector have faced increasing pressure to show that database access is logged, attributable and reviewable. Native database logs often exist, but security teams and auditors have long argued that they are not always immutable or structured in a way that supports forensic investigation after an incident.
ESDS said many businesses also struggle to identify which query was run, by whom and against which table when unusual activity occurs. That can leave security teams with limited evidence when investigating large-scale data extraction, after-hours access or actions by administrators and contractors with broad privileges.
ESDS positioned Enlight Jatayoo as a response to those operational concerns, as well as compliance demands under Indian frameworks including RBI, SEBI, CERT-In, IRDAI and the Digital Personal Data Protection regime. It added that it has mapped the product's audit trail, log retention and privileged access monitoring features to those requirements, alongside international standards including PCI DSS and ISO 27001.
The launch also reflects a wider market trend in which domestic technology suppliers are seeking to address cybersecurity and data governance requirements with products designed around local regulation and data sovereignty expectations. In India, those issues have become more visible as enterprises and public institutions reassess cloud dependencies, incident reporting processes and the location of sensitive workloads.
Komal Somani, whole-time director, CMO and CHRO of ESDS, said the company sees a recurring weakness in database oversight across customer sectors.
"Across every sector we engage with - banking, government, healthcare, manufacturing - the pattern is the same: organisations are investing in perimeter security while the database layer remains unmonitored, unlogged and undefended. Enlight Jatayoo changes that. It brings structure, accountability and forensic clarity to the one layer that matters most, backed by an in-country team that understands Indian regulatory timelines, audit cycles and the operational realities our customers face every day," she said.
ESDS operates Tier III-certified data centres in India and sells cloud, data centre, GPU and security services to customers across regulated and data-intensive industries. Enlight Jatayoo sits within its Enlight range of security and observability products.
The platform is available for immediate deployment for organisations that need database monitoring, privileged access oversight and compliance reporting within their own infrastructure.