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

IBM and McAfee are both solutions in the Database Security category. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of McAfee users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

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Database Security (1st)

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Average Rating

7.6

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Ahmer Faisel Khan

Director | CTO at COMMTEL

Offers mature agents, compliance reporting and reliable database security

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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Wahidur Rahman

Senior Executive Officer at United Commercial Bank Limited

The solution's activity monitoring is valuable, but it should have more integrations and updates overall

Our primary use case for this solution is activity, authentication, and scans for audit purposes and priority assessments The feature I have found most valuable is activity monitoring. McAfee has not had many legacy features. They are not updating their value adjustment.In the next feature, I'd…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

"You could easily throw it onto a VM or add additional hardware. One central manager supports about a hundred managed units, so scalability is excellent."

"The solution supports a lot of databases."

"I like the reporting mechanism. It's very good."

"The front-end works very well."

"We now have the ability to begin to understand how people, applications, and service accounts are interacting with data to better protect it."

"Its ability to find data."

"From the perspective of analysis and prevention, this product is pretty accurate."

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"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."

Cons

"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."

"I am struggling getting through to social."

"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."

"We've had some issues recently that we're working through, on the agent software that runs on the databases."

"Using the data in native Guardium is difficult, at best."

"The deployment is complex and requires expertise to deploy."

"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."

"Performance and the ability to use resources could be improved."

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"Technical support could be more responsive."

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

"The UI needs to be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"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."

"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."

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

"My company purchased IBM Guardium Data Protection in a package, so I'm unable to give its exact licensing cost, but for the package of three IBM solutions, it wasn't very expensive. I'd rate the pricing for all three solutions three out of five. When my team deployed IBM Guardium Data Protection, all features were included."

"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."

"Its cost is good. With the new metric of licensing, such as PDO not being available now, customers are expecting a good price for the solution."

"It is a very costly product."

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

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Questions from the Community

How does IBM Guardium Data Protection compare with Imperva SecureSphere Database Security?

IBM Security Guardium Data Protection is a solution for database security from IBM that gives complete visibility, control, and analysis to secure sensitive data and comply with regulations. IBM S...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Guardium Data Protection?

The pricing is good, and I have no problem with it. Although there is no flexibility to compete with other products, it generally costs between one hundred and three hundred thousand per year depen...

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What do you like most about IBM Security Guardium Data Protection?

The features I like are the robust policies, which allow us to create customized monitoring based on specific activities.

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What do you like most about McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases?

The feature I have found most valuable is activity monitoring.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases?

I would rate the pricing of this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

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What needs improvement with McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases?

McAfee has not had many legacy features. They are not updating their value adjustment. In the next feature, I'd like to see more integrations and updates overall, specifically bottom tech.

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Also Known As

InfoSphere Guardium, Guardium, IBM Guardium

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Overview

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.

Deploy the solution to help discover regulated data in your data stores and use pre-built templates for regulations such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, CCPA and many more, to streamline and automate compliance workflows.

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McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases automatically discovers databases on your network, determines if the latest patches have been applied, and tests for common weaknesses.

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