IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] comparison

"One of the most valuable features is the accelerator. It has a predefined report for PCI SOX compliance and other compliances."

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

"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 I have found is the performance of client monitoring. The other competitors are unable to do this."

"Good data encryption and data masking features."

"Has a great Big Data Intelligence feature."

"It tests security to support SOX compliance."

"We are using it to do a lot of data discovery from a data classification for structured data."

"The support is very good. They are very quick to respond when we have issues."

"The feature I have found most valuable is activity monitoring."

"The technical support is good; they are knowledgeable."

"​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 backup and recovery is very resource-hungry and requires a huge amount of storage capacity."

"I'd like to them make sure that the data sources can be more easily managed, because some of them are tied to multiple things. You try to remove one and you have to go to all the different spots to remove the associations before you can get rid of it."

"The documentation could be better."

"Needs easier integration with custom applications."

"I would like to see a lot of additional reporting and analytics features. They have basic outlier detection, but I would love to see that go further, and model it after analytics tools like Splunk."

"I would like them to support cloud services."

"The integration part of the present solution is very complex and tedious. Plus it gives a lot of false positives which need to be eradicated over time."

"Technical support could be more responsive."

"The UI needs to be improved."

"In the next feature, I'd like to see more integrations and updates overall, specifically bottom tech."

"Guardium has not saved us time or money."

"The cost depends on the number of databases. You can purchase advanced licenses, but the standard license is calculated based on the number of databases you have to onboard."

"The biggest challenge is the cost associated with the product, and the cost of maintaining. Everything is not translated directly to the benefits we see. There are benefits, yes, but if I were writing the check, would I buy Guardium? No."

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

"The price of Guardium is higher than the main competitor, Imperva. In addition, it's complex as the calculation of the licensing is done by Processor Value Unit (PVU). However, before purchasing a DAP solution, it is important to analyze specific points to evaluate the cost-benefit of each tool. For example: Does the environment to be monitored have mainframes? If so, it's a point for Guardium. If not, a point for Imperva. Note: IBM is looking into a new licensing policy and reducing the price of Guardium."

"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."

"One of the deployments that I know of had three databases, and the yearly fees are approximately $50,000 USD."

"The price is good for the quality of the solution."

"It's not expensive compared to other products that are available."