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

"The purpose of EBM Guardium is to monitor database activity and who is accessing it. This is the most valuable feature."

"The vulnerability assessment is a valuable feature."

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

"Guardium is easily integrated with other IBM solutions, a significant advantage and a key reason we chose Guardium. Both platforms share the IBM infrastructure, enhancing compatibility and integration. Additionally, Guardium offers a vulnerability analyzer, which is another compelling feature of the platform."

"It is very easy to obtain reports and manage the reporting interface."

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

"It has been very difficult to analyze all the network traffic with something else. Guardium provides that feature, it's heuristic. So we have rule-based algorithms in place to take care of that."

"The most valuable feature for me, in my role as systems DBA, is the expediting of internal and external audits."

"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."

"​It will not go as fast as you want. ​"

"If IBM Guardium Data Protection could find a way to not have a lot of coding and development required to get the solution up and running it would be an advantage. The information of the agent could improve, which is necessary for us to monitor the databases would be a great benefit."

"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."

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

"Guardium could be improved in the area of data encryption."

"There could be a feature to integrate and protect multiple databases. The local support services need improvements as well."

"The most important requirements for us are integration with new database solutions and the ability to manage things like Jailbreak or something like that. Its reduction feature can also be improved. It has a functionality called reduction, which is like masking data, but it is just a replacement of characters. Sometimes the customer needs more than this. It would be good if it was more advanced or complete. We also have a problem with this solution because the IBM aggregator isn't working very well. IBM has created big data intelligence for Guardium, and occasionally, customers need three or four months of data, but they can't run it from the collectors. It can have a better dashboard and more pre-defined use cases for those customers who don't have any idea about data protection or don't have expert personnel in this area. For example, they can include five use cases for banks and five use cases for retail."

"IBM should add more database security features to Guardium. They could add user profiling, anomaly detection, and machine learning. IBM has user profiling, but they need to strengthen it. It should make sense for the users. It should remove most of the false positives."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It's an expensive solution"

"The price of the solution could be better."

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

"Reasonable cost but could be lower."

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

"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."

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