We performed a comparison between Fortra's Vera and IBM Security Guardium Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."Vera encryption is the most valuable feature."
"Satisfies audit requests, to give us an idea if anybody is accessing our privileged user IDs without our knowledge."
"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"Gathering the data works very well. "
"Guardium does a great job of capturing data and having the ability of trying to pull it out and make sense of it. Using it for business applications is its biggest capability."
"The most valuable feature for me, in my role as systems DBA, is the expediting of internal and external audits."
"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."
"The features I like are the robust policies, which allow us to create customized monitoring based on specific activities."
"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."
"The additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"Additional improvement can be done as the issues are encountered."
"It was difficult implementing it, configuring it, getting it up and running and in production. However, since then, I believe it has stabilized."
"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."
"It would be helpful, and convenient to improve the Chat support."
"The technical support is very poor."
"Overall testing and quality need improvement. It is fairly buggy at times, so it feels like it could use additional staff on the product, testing and trying it out."
"The analysis part of this product could be improved. It's a very comprehensive product, so the features it has complement customer requirements. But I would like to see more emphasis on analytics, and it would be great if they added machine learning. They already have analysis insights, but a comprehensive analytical feature that's already incorporated into the solution would be very helpful."
"Deployment process is very complicated as you need to now all advanced parameters. Almost not possible to figure out for yourself."
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
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Fortra's Vera is ranked 11th in Database Security with 1 review while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews. Fortra's Vera is rated 9.0, while IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortra's Vera writes "Has good encryption features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". Fortra's Vera is most compared with , whereas IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Vormetric Application Crypto Suite.
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