IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs Oracle Advanced Security comparison

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

"Supports security initiatives and ensures compliance policies."

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

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

"It's one of the first to encrypt DB2 databases."

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

"It allows us to put in controls to make sure that only the right persons access the proper records in the database."

"The tool helps detect invalid login attempts within a specific time frame."

"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."

"Could be more user friendly; deployment is a little complex."

"The technical support is very poor."

"Needs nore cloud support."

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

"Can't be used for a NoSQL database, which is limiting."

"I would like to see IBM Guardium have other encryption algorithms employed."

"The one thing that I would like to see improved, but I don't think it's going to be in the next release, is its reporting capabilities. I think that's been offloaded to another third-party product that I think IBM actually endorses for that."

"The documentation could be better."

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

"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."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is very high price, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"It is a very costly product."

"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."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"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."

"The price of the solution could be better."

"Guardium is most suitable for large scale enterprises because the pricing model is better if you are implementing a large number of databases."

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