We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and IDERA SQL Compliance Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its ability to find data."
"It has automated a bunch of manual tasks, giving us insights into activities that we would not otherwise be able to capture."
"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."
"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."
"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."
"It allows us to put in controls to make sure that only the right persons access the proper records in the database."
"Our internal audit is keeping an eye out, and making sure that we're in compliance. Having the Guardium solution and its reporting helps us get through that process a lot more quickly and efficiently."
"Accelerators is one of the big functions they have out there. It gives you canned reports that you don't have to make yourself, they're out there by being part of the patch. You just have to fill your information in to some of the already built groups, for your environment, and it automates a lot of that. That has definitely helped improve things."
"The tool can track logins and login failures. I made my own alert so that if there is a certain number of login failures for a server, it emails me. That is really useful. If I want logins to automatically lock out after a certain number of failed attempts, I can know when that happens."
"The ability to track activity including the SQL statements is definitely valuable. I really like how the database is laid out. It's straightforward. I can query the back-end tables. I've made a few of my own email alerts based on the data and the tables. It's accessible."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"An improvement would be to make the pricing relative in terms of regions."
"Setup can be complex. The documentation is in so many different locations, and a lot of times we have to leverage support and higher level resources to figure out the right steps to take."
"Guardium's storage capabilities could use some improvement. I'd also like to have some better integration using digital technology or a connector."
"The installation should be a bit easier."
"Initial setup is very complex. Once you start interacting with people's databases, they get very hesitant. Then, the amount of social tasks to socialize the solution ensuring people are comfortable with it became a much heavier lift."
"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."
"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."
"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."
"The set up is kind of clunky, in my opinion. It's not really intuitive. If they had either a smoother install or better instructions, that would be nice."
"Its filtration and navigation are not the best."
"I submitted a ticket (last year) about archiving/grooming of old records because the GUI functionality was not working. Per their recommendation, I ended up using a command line to do it."
"What would really a good thing is if you could refer to an external list or table for filtering on, say, certain applications, IP addresses, or host names; or perhaps even combinations of host name and application name."
"There is an agent that collects the data on SQL Server. Sometimes it will stop collecting. I'm not exactly sure what's happening but I have to go in and manually restart the agent. It would be nice if the central collection server could send a request to the agent to restart."
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IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is ranked 1st in Database Security with 71 reviews while IDERA SQL Compliance Manager is ranked 12th in Database Security with 5 reviews. IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is rated 8.2, while IDERA SQL Compliance Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection writes "Provides visibility, has a single console that shows all information, and collector-aggregator capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA SQL Compliance Manager writes "Enables us to track changes to databases and tables, but the dashboard doesn't always work as expected". IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is most compared with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security, Oracle Audit Vault, Oracle Advanced Security, DataSunrise Database Security and Informatica Dynamic Data Masking, whereas IDERA SQL Compliance Manager is most compared with . See our IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. IDERA SQL Compliance Manager report.
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