IBM Security Guardium Data Protection Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.1 out of 5

74 reviews
85% willing to recommend

1,430 followers

What is IBM Security Guardium Data Protection?

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data from across the enterprise, providing real-time data activity monitoring and advanced user behavior analytics to help discover unusual activity around sensitive data.

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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is the #1 ranked solution in top Database Security solutions. PeerSpot users give IBM Security Guardium Data Protection an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most commonly compared to Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC): IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 72% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 30% of all views.

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Muzzamil Hussain

Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan

We are currently facing a challenge because it does not offer data encryption by default, only data masking. When we decide to implement data encryption, we must purchase an additional add-on, which incurs extra costs. Data encryption and data masking often work together in organizations. Therefore, using different products for these functions, such as Oracle for data management and a plugin for data masking, creates a burden on our systems. We have to install and manage multiple agents, like Oracle's light agents and IBM's agents. IBM should include data encryption in its standard package. This would streamline operations and reduce the complexity and cost of managing separate data protection solutions. Currently, it supports cross-platform integration but does not support integration with flat file databases. IBM Guardium integrates well with international databases like MySQL and Oracle, making it easy to use with these systems. We need to develop a plugin to integrate flat file databases with Guardium.

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DevidharsanJ

Information Security Engineering Consultant at Optum

IBM should add more database security features to Guardium. They could add user profiling, anomaly detection, and machine learning. IBM has user profiling, but they need to strengthen it. It should make sense for the users. It should remove most of the false positives. Anomaly detection would help. Let's say you had a thousand anomalies and 990 are false positives. Who will take care of this? People will simply ignore all 1,000. They need to improve a lot in this area. They're coming out with a new product called Guardium Insights. It will be able to store more data, and its algorithm will be stronger. That will probably fix all my concerns. They have yet to release the beta version.

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Ahmer Faisel Khan

Director | CTO at COMMTEL

The solution should allow the data to shift to a centralized repository with elastic servers and big data infrastructure. If a customer searches for old logs for retention purposes, there are limitations on appliances once they are set with specific hardware, so they can only be changed by uninstalling or reinstalling the hardware. The solution's aggregator feature allows data aggregation, but for instance, if a customer wants a project ready in two years, having an Elasticsearch in DB or the capacity to store huge amounts of data would be beneficial in data investigation or evaluation at an affordable cost. Some AI features should be added to IBM Security Guardium Data Protection. For example, the AI features implemented in the solution can be anomaly detection or suspicious activity identification.

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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection in the Database Security category stands at 31.8%, up from 30.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"It can help with PCI compliance. It includes features like data masking, especially during queries, which supports compliance efforts."
"Guardium is easily integrated with other IBM solutions, a significant advantage and a key reason we chose Guardium. Both platforms share the IBM infrastructure, enhancing compatibility and integration. Additionally, Guardium offers a vulnerability analyzer, which is another compelling feature of the platform."
"The maturity of the agent is the most valuable feature of the solution"

Room for Improvement

"Many clients inquire if the solution includes a database firewall, which it doesn’t."
"We are currently facing a challenge because it does not offer data encryption by default, only data masking."
"The solution should allow the data to shift to a centralized repository with elastic servers and big data infrastructure"

Pricing

"It's an expensive solution"
"IBM solutions have fair price strategy, and operates on a yearly basis. If it's a SaaS solution, then you can opt for yearly basis."
"It is not an expensive product. We purchase its yearly license."

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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection was previously known as InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium.