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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85% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between IBM Security Guardium Data Protection and McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Security Guardium Data ...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

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Database Security (1st)

McAfee Vulnerability Manage...

Average Rating

7.6

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Featured Reviews

Muzzamil Hussain

Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan

Offers vulnerability analyzer with easily integration with other IBM solutions

We are currently facing a challenge because it does not offer data encryption by default, only data masking. When we decide to implement data encryption, we must purchase an additional add-on, which incurs extra costs. Data encryption and data masking often work together in organizations. Therefore, using different products for these functions, such as Oracle for data management and a plugin for data masking, creates a burden on our systems. We have to install and manage multiple agents, like Oracle's light agents and IBM's agents. IBM should include data encryption in its standard package. This would streamline operations and reduce the complexity and cost of managing separate data protection solutions. Currently, it supports cross-platform integration but does not support integration with flat file databases. IBM Guardium integrates well with international databases like MySQL and Oracle, making it easy to use with these systems. We need to develop a plugin to integrate flat file databases with Guardium.

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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

"The product has proven to be flexible"

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

"This is a multi-platform solution that consolidates everything and centralizes support for it."

"It sends out an immediate alert when there's suspicious activity."

"The front-end works very well."

"It tests security to support SOX compliance."

"IBM Guardium Data Protection has better integration options than most of the leading competitors on the market, and the price is always better."

"We use IBM Guardium to support security initiatives and combine policies within the organization."

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

"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."

Cons

"I have already mentioned to IBM that a primary need is to improve the number of records in the reports above 65,535."

"They could enable the out-of-the-box feature to track application user activity."

"I would like to see streamlining of some of the agent features, some of the patches; make it a little bit more user-friendly on the documentation."

"Since we are resellers we do not have enough information about the technical aspects and the areas of improvement. However, one consistent report that we receive from our customers is that IBM does not offer timely support due to the size of the organisation. It would be great if they could improve their response time."

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

"Sometimes the performance is not good, and also sometimes we have sudden bugs causing difficulties."

"I would like to be able to upgrade appliances within major versions without needing to rebuild the appliance."

"We deal with updates manually on Sundays and sometimes face bugs with the newer versions."

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

"Technical support could be more responsive."

"The UI needs to be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a very costly product."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If you are researching this type of solution, work with IBM."

"It's an expensive solution"

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

"I would suggest to review the type of data, need for security, and if the organizational structure needs the options IBM Guardium provides."

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

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Financial Services Firm

29%

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12%

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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?

I can't provide details on the pricing because I don't deal with the billing. We have a big package with QRadar, Guardium, and other tools.

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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.

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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