DataSunrise Database Security vs IBM Security Guardium Data Protection comparison

"We have a law in Turkey similar to the GDPR in the European Union. It's almost like a replica. Complying with this law is crucial, and the service plays a significant role. Many customer inquiries revolve around not retaining their data. The service addresses this by providing functionality for masking data within the databases. So, if a user requests data deletion, we can remove any information we have on them within the database, ensuring compliance with the law."

"The most valuable feature of DataSunrise Database Security is Dynamic Masking. You don't need to build copies of the database and is highly customizable. It is a very good unique feature. It also has built-in algorithms, or machine learning, which is quite helpful, because it understands the user's behaviors and patterns to apply certain policies."

"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."

"It is very easy to obtain reports and manage the reporting interface."

"We also use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and compliance policies. For example, our audit area can verify if someone has access to information that they shouldn't have, for their regular job functions."

"Our main focus for IBM Guardium is to support security initiatives and compliance policies within our organization. We use the DPD product for monitoring, especially for GDPR, SOX regulations and, of course, the vulnerability assessment that we use to make sure we're keeping up with our patches, making sure things are configured, making sure we're following the best practices."

"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."

"Provides a unified key management system to help simplify encryption key management."

"We appreciate its ease of implementation and the local support available for the product."

"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."

"I believe there's room for improvement in their distributor network, especially in Turkey. This is why I was exploring alternatives to DataSunrise Database Security. However, the product itself is quite good. One suggestion for enhancement could be adding an encryption module on top of the masking features, perhaps a more permanent form of preservative encryption."

"The solution has many features but I would like to see vulnerability assessments in the next release."

"Right now we're having some issues where it's using a high CPU, we don't know why. So, better testing before the product is ready would help."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection is a mature product. There is a lot of encryption that is not owned by IBM and is done by a third party and is not an integral part of the solution."

"Deployment process is very complicated as you need to now all advanced parameters. Almost not possible to figure out for yourself."

"An area for improvement would be the user interface - currently, it takes around two to three months to become comfortable using it."

"There are features like end-to-end and S-TAP mapping, and the ability to install policies for your configuration builder. They're not there, but we'd like to see them in the next version."

"The solution lacks control over database security."

"The solution could be improved for NoSQL databases."

"One of the limitations that everyone who uses Guardium knows is its ability for back-end reporting. The ability to collect it sometimes is easier than the ability to retrieve it, use it, or give a good representation of it for incidence response or questions which come from the different people who want to use the data."

"The product is expensive."

"Guardium won mostly because of our scope and scale. It was able to perform at the scale that we wanted to use it. ​"

"It is a very costly product."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"The product's pricing is reasonable and affordable. It is in the moderate range."

"Guardium's pricing is quite high, but it gives good value for money for all sizes of enterprises, especially for partners."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection charges you based on the number of users, e.g. based on the number of licenses, and it's either on a per-license or a per-data basis."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

"It is not an expensive product. We purchase its yearly license."