IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

"The platform provides data protection from internal and external threats."

"Database logging and audit functions are the most valuable features."

"Efficiency is key and IBM Guardium provides information in a heartbeat, but protects the data with military grade encryption."

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

"The best feature is how many databases we can protect with one solution because it has compatibility with different databases, including Oracle, SQL, and DB2."

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

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the data encryption option for columns and tables."

"The features that are the most used by the customers and partners are, at the moment, for GDPR, so obviously data encryption and data reduction. Our customers also like the partitioning option."

"The manuals should be clearer. There needs to be an online course or tutorial for faster management training."

"I am struggling getting through to social."

"The solution lacks control over database security."

"Deployment process is very complicated as you need to now all advanced parameters. Almost not possible to figure out for yourself."

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

"Initially it did not have support external applications like, say, Tableau, ServiceNow, Remedy, and the like. They have started growing into it, but I would like to have more and more integration with outside applications."

"The user interface could be improved and modernized."

"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."

"It is really constrained as an environment because you cannot change something that would be useful. It is a very good product because it is very similar to what you have on-premises. Yes, it is constrained, but it is expected because it is a platform as a service so it has to be constrained."

"Having a single command to encrypt a table would be an improvement."

"The price of the solution could be better."

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

"Guardium won mostly because of our scope and scale. It was able to perform at the scale that we wanted to use it. ​"

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

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

"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."

"For IBM Guardium, licensing is very simple and straightforward. There are no issues I can speak of."

"The product's pricing is reasonable and affordable. It is in the moderate range."